Marboah v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Glus v. Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal · Duffy v. Hartsock · Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. v. District of Columbia · 89 Ill. App. 3d 77 - Mettes v. Quinn · Niosi v. Aiello
Most-quoted passages
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“Any purported entitlement that Marb-oah could have had to workers’ compensation was founded upon misrepresentation and fraud as to his eligibility for compensation, and this court will not aid Marboah to vindicate that fraud-induced entitlement through this action for legal malpractice. Accordingly we decline to permit Marboah to recover, as damages from his attorneys, “lost” workers’ compensation which the defendants’ negligence allegedly prevented him from recovering, but to which in fact he was not legally entitled at all. If Marboah had not concealed the truth, inter alia, from his employer, from the employer’s carrier, and from the defendants (who were his attorneys in the workers’ compensation claim), his claim would never have been favorably considered, for as a matter of [Virginia] law, ... Marboah’s status as an illegal alien would have disqualified him from any recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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