Miscellaneous Professional Liability

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We recognize that professional firms and licensed service providers are frequently at risk of being sued over the services they perform.

Our Miscellaneous Professional Liability (MPL) Practice Group is broad-based and includes many senior attorneys who have significant experience in the defense of large-exposure, politically sensitive and complex cases. We thoroughly examine each case upon intake to ensure that the right attorney with the appropriate experience is assigned to the case for that particular professional.

When it comes to defending clients in MPL matters, our attorneys have handled thousands of professional Errors & Omissions suits in all seven states where we maintain our offices and in neighboring jurisdictions where we are licensed to practice. We counsel and defend a wide-ranging client base, including, but not limited to:

  • Advertising/marketing/public relations
  • Alarm monitoring services
  • Associations  
  • Auctioneer
  • Background screeners  
  • Bookkeeping and/or tax preparation services
  • Business brokers
  • Cell tower acquisition/leasing
  • Employment agencies/staffing services
  • Environmental analysts
  • Event/conference planners and venues
  • Freight forwarders/customs house brokers
  • Graphic designers
  • Human resources outsourcing
  • Insurance agents and brokers
  • Life coaches
  • Management and strategic consultants
  • Medical billers/coders
  • Medical practice management
  • Payroll processors
  • Probation officers
  • Professional employer organizations
  • Specialty consultants
  • Technical writers
  • Trustee services
  • Utility/energy credit brokers
Craig Hudson
Craig S. Hudson, Chair
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James H. Cole, Co-chair

Breach of contract claim barred under the gist of the action doctrine where alleged conduct pertained to manner in which duties of representation performed and not a breach of a specific contractual promise.

Philadelphia - Headquarters
Miscellaneous Professional Liability
Lawyers' Professional Liability
The Pennsylvania Superior Court, in an unpublished opinion, continued the recent trend of Pennsylvania case law barring breach of contract claims that actually s Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, January 2021 is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent developments of inte
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Claims by a new business or venture for ascertainment of future probable profits are too remote, contingent, speculative to meet legal standard in New Jersey for reasonable certainty.

Mount Laurel
Miscellaneous Professional Liability
Since 1936, the vast majority of jurisdictions have rejected the New Business Rule as a per se rule of exclusion and, instead, allowed lost prof Case Law Alerts, 1st Quarter, January 2021 is prepared by Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin to provide information on recent developments of inte
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Dismissal of complex legal malpractice action

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

We obtained a dismissal of a legal malpractice action arising from a Law Against Discrimination and Conscientious Employment Practices Act action against a municipality and its School Board. In this complex multi-party action, our client, an expert in school law, was retained by the school district to handle a hearing against the plaintiff, a teacher and coach. The plaintiffs alleged a conspiracy among the lawyers and the school board to oust the plaintiff.

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Marshall Dennehey wraps up legal malpractice case.

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

We obtained a defense verdict in a legal malpractice case affirmed on appeal. Our client was an attorney who represented a plaintiff in a civil rights case against a New Jersey municipality. The underlying facts were complex, involving fraud claims against the municipality, and claims based on contract, inverse condemnation, civil rights and negligence. In the legal malpractice case, the jury found deviation but no proximate cause.

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Successful outcome in legal malpractice action.

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

We obtained summary judgment in a legal malpractice action in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas. The plaintiff, a Philadelphia police officer, was arrested after failing to appear in court following a hit-and-run car accident involving his motor vehicle. After proving that he was not the driver of the vehicle, the charges were dismissed. The plaintiff then sought damages from the township, police department and individual police officers for alleged violations of his civil rights.

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Complex Legal Malpractice Case Dismissed.

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

On the eve of trial, we obtained summary judgment for our attorney-client, dismissing a complex legal malpractice case in which damages were sought in connection with the underlying land transaction. ​This case included allegations that our client had multiple conflicts. The plaintiffs’ claim for damages included an allegation of $8 million in lost profits due to our client advising the plaintiffs to sell out of this business deal early, while another client of the attorney made $40 million in this deal!

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Legal Malpractice and Fraud Action Brought By a Nursing Home Dismissed, With Prejudice.

Miscellaneous Professional Liability

We obtained the dismissal of a legal malpractice/fraud action brought by a nursing home against an attorney who represented a patient and who assisted the patient in the admission process. The owners of the nursing home claimed the attorney misrepresented his client’s assets in the application and that the nursing/assisted living facility relied on that representation in admitting the patient.

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