Marlin v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

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• insurer had no obligation or right to supervise or control professional conduct of attorney and, therefore, was not liable for litigation decisions of counsel
• “As the insurer has no obligation or right to supervise or control the professional conduct of the attorney, it is not liable for the litigation decisions of counsel.”
• “[B]ecause the insurer exercises no control over the attorney’s performance, it is not, absent an agreement, liable for any alleged acts of professional negligence committed by the attorney.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).