Dumas v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where insured and insurer were represented by same attorneys in suit for auto accident injuries, discovery of attorney's file was not barred by attorney-client privilege doctrine
• “Where two parties are represented by the same attorneys for their mutual benefit, the communications between the parties are not privileged in later action between such parties or their representatives.”
• “A right of action for negligence accrues only when the plaintiff has suffered an injury. The possibility of injury is not injury itself.” (citing White v. Schnoebelen, 91 N.H. 273, 18 A.2d 185, 186 (1941))
• attorney-client privilege does not apply
• attorney-client privilege does not apply

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).