Court Finds No Basis for Mold Plaintiffs' Suit Against Their Attorney

ST. PAUL, Minn. - Minnesota's Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for an attorney accused by his clients of negligence in failing to discover an insurance company's operations manual, saying the alleged omission cannot form the basis for a malpractice claim if the client's policy unambiguously excluded mold. Sather v. King, et al., No. A07-124 (Minn. Ct. App.).

The Court of Appeals also held in its unpublished Jan. 22 opinion that Jeffrey Scott and Anne Valerie Moon Sather could not prove causation because they could not show that they would have prevailed in the underlying mold coverage case "but for" …