134 So. 3d 484 - Dingle v. Dellinger’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “While the general rule in Florida is that an attorney owes a duty of care only to his client and not to third parties, an attorney owes a duty to a third party if the attorney was hired for the purpose of benefitting a third party. Because the intended benefit rule requires the specific intent to benefit the third party, it is accepted that an attorney is not liable to the third party for malpractice alleged to have occurred during adversarial proceedings on the rationale that adversaries would never desire to benefit one another.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. E.P. v. Hogreve

2. “To assert a third-party beneficiary claim, the complaint must allege: (1) a contract; (2) an intent that the contract primarily and directly benefit the third party; (3) breach of the contract; and (4) resulting damages to the third party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. E.P. v. Hogreve

3. “If the parties are not in privity, to bring a legal malpractice action, the plaintiff must be an intended third-party beneficiary of the lawyer's services.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. E.P. v. Hogreve