McPeake v. Cannon, Esquire, PC

How courts have described this case

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• holding that former client’s suicide could not be basis for wrongful death action since it was extraordinary independent intervening act not reasonably foreseeable by former attorney
• stating that “suicide constitutes an independent intervening act so extraordinary as not to have been reasonably foreseeable by the original tortfeasor”
• no duty to prevent harm that is not a reasonably foreseeable result of prior negligent conduct
• \Suicide has been recognized as an act that is so extraordinary as not to be reasonably foreseeable....\
• \Suicide has been recognized as an act that is so extraordinary as not to be reasonably foreseeable....\
• \[W]e hold that an attorney's duty to provide adequate representation does not encompass the duty to foresee and protect a client from his own possible suicidal tendencies.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).