Moorhouse v. Ambassador Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that legal malpractice claims are personal to the client and, therefore, not assignable
• “Just as affirmative defenses may be added by amendment without waiving them, ... it makes sense to allow them to be raised when they become legally available.”
• “Lack of ‘capacity to sue’ refers to some legal disability, such as infancy or mental competency, which deprives a party of the right to come into court. ‘Capacity to sue’ does not speak to whether the party has a cause of action or not.”
• assignor was judgment-proof former adversary in litigation
• assignor was judgment-proof former adversary in litigation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).