{"id":187,"date":"2013-05-15T15:02:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/?p=187"},"modified":"2021-12-21T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-12-21T20:05:57","slug":"failure-to-instruct-jury-on-suit-within-a-suit-leads-to-remand-punitive-damages-recoverable-against-lawyer-but-lost-punitives-from-suit-within-a-suit-not-recoverable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/failure-to-instruct-jury-on-suit-within-a-suit-leads-to-remand-punitive-damages-recoverable-against-lawyer-but-lost-punitives-from-suit-within-a-suit-not-recoverable\/","title":{"rendered":"Failure to instruct jury on &#8220;suit within a suit&#8221; leads to remand; punitive damages recoverable against lawyer, but &#8220;lost&#8221; punitives from &#8220;suit within a suit&#8221; not recoverable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Graham\">Christopher J. Graham<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/attorneys.html?Attorney=Kelly\">Joseph P. Kelly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=5980797840638924593&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=2&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholarr\">Osborne v. Keeney, Case Nos. 2010-SC-000397-DG, 2010-SC-000430-DG (Ky. Dec 20, 2012)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Supreme Court reversed and remanded legal malpractice case because trial court failed to instruct the jury on the suit-within-a-suit standard which requires trial court to instruct the jury as if it were trying the underlying tort case before instructing the same jury on the legal malpractice claim.  Plaintiff\u2019s legal malpractice case was based on her attorney\u2019s failure to file suit against a pilot that crashed his plane into her house.  Court also held that punitive damages are recoverable from  attorney for legal malpractice, but plaintiff can\u2019t recover as damages the \u201clost\u201d punitive damages that may have been recovered in \u201csuit-within-a-suit.\u201d<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Christopher J. Graham and Joseph P. Kelly Osborne v. Keeney, Case Nos. 2010-SC-000397-DG, 2010-SC-000430-DG (Ky. Dec 20, 2012) Kentucky Supreme Court reversed and remanded legal malpractice case because trial court failed to instruct the jury on the suit-within-a-suit standard which requires trial court to instruct the jury as if it were trying the underlying [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joneslemongraham.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}