Bongiorno v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, in a third-party action under the Workers’ Compensation Act, damages in the plaintiffs legal malpractice claim are those that would have been received from third party
• vacating judgment where there was “no indication in the record that the settlement agreement between the plaintiffs and the [defendants] has been approved, as we think it should be”
• employee’s legal malpractice recovery subject to insurer’s lien even though statute does not explicitly so provide
• proceeds from legal malpractice action that stemmed from an injured employee’s third-party tort claim were subject to insurer’s lien under § 15
• third-party action brought by employee under control of employee
• attorney’s malpractice resulted in dismissal of client’s claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).