· 6/14/2002
Quality Chiropractic, PC v. Farmers Insurance
Citations
- 51 P.3d 1172
- 132 N.M. 518
- 2002 NMCA 080
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- “[Allowing injured tort victims to assign the proceeds of their personal injury claims could add unnecessary complications to the settlement of relatively straightforward cases.”
- extensively discussing policy concerns in declining to recognize any distinction between assignment of personal injury claim and proceeds from such claims
- “we hold that the assignment of legal malpractice claims is against public policy” and collecting cases where majority of jurisdiction have similarly held
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Judges: Pickard, Alarid, Fry
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