http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2003/07/18/disclosure-of-malpractice-insurance-should-be-mandatory/ breathless punditry and one-breath poetry with David Giacalone Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:59:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2003/07/18/disclosure-of-malpractice-insurance-should-be-mandatory/#comment-194227 A. Ray Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:50:08 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/formerlyknownas/2003/07/18/disclosure-of-malpractice-ins#comment-194227 What lawyer in their right mind would not carry insurance? Of all people lawyers should know the value of having proper protection of their assets. What lawyer in their right mind would not carry insurance? Of all people lawyers should know the value of having proper protection of their assets.

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2003/07/18/disclosure-of-malpractice-insurance-should-be-mandatory/#comment-176531 rghins Thu, 01 May 2008 13:17:31 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/formerlyknownas/2003/07/18/disclosure-of-malpractice-ins#comment-176531 "When a client hires a lawyer, is the lawyer’s lack of insurance a material fact that the client is entitled to know? It is difficult to fashion a persuasive argument that clients are not entitled to that information. Lawyers operate under a state license and have a monopoly on practicing law. With that monopoly go certain obligations. Full disclosure to clients of material information regarding their representation is certainly one of those obligations. And if you don’t believe that most clients would consider information about lack of insurance to be material, I suggest you put that question to a cross-section of your own clients. You may be surprised by the response." This phrase of the article has certainly got something that can bring more values to the insurance sector as well as for the a client. “When a client hires a lawyer, is the lawyer’s lack of insurance a material fact that the client is entitled to know? It is difficult to fashion a persuasive argument that clients are not entitled to that information. Lawyers operate under a state license and have a monopoly on practicing law. With that monopoly go certain obligations. Full disclosure to clients of material information regarding their representation is certainly one of those obligations. And if you don’t believe that most clients would consider information about lack of insurance to be material, I suggest you put that question to a cross-section of your own clients. You may be surprised by the response.” This phrase of the article has certainly got something that can bring more values to the insurance sector as well as for the a client.

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