Practice and Procedures
Advisers Beware: The Cost of Being Sued Is Going Up - footnotes
1 Kenney and Sheppard, “Korb Predicts Shelter Malpractice Suits,” 2005 TNT 216-2, November 9, 2005.
2 State tort law governs most malpractice actions. Federal courts become involved when there is a diversity of residences among the parties.
3 Orsini v. Bratten, 713 P2d 791 (Alaska 1986).
4 Alpert v. Shea Gould Climencko & Casey, 559 NYS2d 312 (N.Y. App. Div. 1990).
5 Eckert Cold Storage, Inc. v. Behl, 943 FSupp 1230 (E.D. Cal. 1996).
6 Leendertsen v. Price Waterhouse, 916 P2d 449 (Wash. Ct. App. 1996).
7 Id. at 451.
8 Wynn v. Estate of Holmes, 815 P2d 1231 (Okla. Ct. App. 1991), overruled in part by Stroud v. Arther Andersen & Co., 37 P3d 783 (Okla. 2001).
9 Id. See also Ronson v. Talesnick, 33 FSupp2d 347 (D. N.J. 1999).
10 Dail v. Adamson, 570 NE2d 1167 (Ill. App. Ct. 1991).
11 Id. at 1169, quoting Thomas v. Cleary, 768 P2d 1090, 1091–1092, n.5 (Alaska 1989).
12 Jobe v. International Ins. Co., 933 FSupp 844 (D. Ariz. 1995), opinion withdrawn as part of settlement agreement, 1 FSupp2d 1403 (D. Ariz. 1997).
13 McCulloch v. Price Waterhouse LLP, 971 P2d 414 (Or. Ct. App. 1998).
14 Ronson v. Talesnick, 33 FSupp2d 347 (D. N.J. 1999).
15 The benefits rule states that “[w]hen the [d]efendants’ tortious conduct has caused harm to the plaintiff or to his property and in doing so has conferred a special benefit to the interest of the plaintiff that was harmed, the value of the benefit conferred is considered in mitigation of damages, to the extent that this is equitable.” Id. at 354 (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts §920 (1979)).
16 O’Bryan v. Ashland, 717 NW2d 632 (S.D. 2006).
17 Lien v. McGladrey & Pullen, 509 NW2d 421 (S.D. 1993).
18 O’Bryan, 717 NW2d at 639, citing Hulstein v. Meilman Food Indus., Inc., 293 NW2d 889, 891 (S.D. 1980) (citing Ralston Purina Co. v. Jungers, 199 NW2d 600 (S.D. 1972)).
19 Amato v. KPMG LLP, 433 FSupp2d 460 (M.D. Pa. 2006), vacated in part for reconsideration, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57091 (M.D. Pa. 2006). The initial state case was removed to federal district court.
20 Amato v. KPMG LLP, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 57091 (M.D. Pa. 2006).
21 O’Bryan, 717 NW2d at 636.
