{"id":110899,"date":"2025-03-19T14:42:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/19\/underlying-malpractice-suit-meets-the-low-bar-of-insurers-duty-to-defend-chicago-firm-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T14:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:42:31","slug":"underlying-malpractice-suit-meets-the-low-bar-of-insurers-duty-to-defend-chicago-firm-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/03\/19\/underlying-malpractice-suit-meets-the-low-bar-of-insurers-duty-to-defend-chicago-firm-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Underlying Malpractice Suit ‘Meets the Low Bar’ of Insurer’s Duty to Defend Chicago Firm, Judge Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"

“These allegations easily implicate the services performed by Esbrook for the former clients ‘as a lawyer.’ These allegations clearly meet the low bar of ‘potentially’ arising out of the performance of ‘legal services,’ which is all that is required to trigger a duty to defend,” U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt said in a suit against the firm’s legal-malpractice carrier.<\/p>\n

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“These allegations easily implicate the services performed by Esbrook for the former clients ‘as a lawyer.’ These allegations clearly meet the low bar of ‘potentially’ arising out of the performance of ‘legal services,’ which is all that is required to trigger a duty to defend,” U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt said in a suit against the firm’s legal-malpractice carrier.<\/p>\n

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“These allegations easily implicate the services performed by Esbrook for the former clients ‘as a lawyer.’ These allegations clearly meet the low bar of ‘potentially’ arising out of the performance of ‘legal services,’ which is all that is required to trigger a duty to defend,” U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt said in a suit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/legal-news-qy0xFW.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}