Maryland Court Admits Error in Negligent Representation Case

BALTIMORE - The U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland has amended its previous ruling in an asbestos "comedy of errors" after realizing it overlooked a key argument that a third-party defendant presented in a footnote to its summary judgment motion. Royal Insurance Company of America v. Miles & Stockbridge, P.C., et al., No. S-99-1351 (D. Md.).

The court ruled on April 27 that defendants Miles & Stockbridge, a law firm, and Mauricio Barreiro, a lawyer at Miles & Stockbridge, were fully liable for a $1.6 million settlement eventually arranged in what began as a "run-of-the-mill" asbestos case and …