First American Title Insurance Co v. Johnson Bank

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a lawyer owes a duty to the direct, intended, and specifically identifiable beneficiaries of the will
• noting that “purely economic losses are recoverable in actions asserting claims of professional negligence against attorneys and accountants” as an exception to the economic loss rule
• stating we may affirm on any ground “raised below and reiterated in the briefing to this court”
• “As a general rule, the party seeking damages bears the burden of proving them; if the record is uncertain and speculative as to whether a party has sustained damages, the factfinder must deny recovery.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).