(DOWNLOAD) "Costello, Porter, Hill, Heisterkamp & Bushnell v. Providers Fidelity Life Insurance Co." by United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Costello, Porter, Hill, Heisterkamp & Bushnell v. Providers Fidelity Life Insurance Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
- Release Date : January 11, 1992
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 76 KB
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LAY, Chief Judge. These appeals involve whether summary judgment was properly entered for Costello, Porter, Hill, Heisterkamp & Bushnell (Costello), a law firm, on an account stated for attorney fees. Costello brought suit against Providers Fidelity Life Insurance Company (Providers) to collect legal fees arising from Costello's defense of Providers in an action which resulted in a thirteen million dollar judgment against Providers. In its answer, Providers stated that there was no understanding or agreement with regard to the alleged indebtedness and that the legal services rendered by the law firm were of ""no value."" The answer also stated that the plaintiff may well have been guilty of legal malpractice.1 The answer pled failure of consideration or, in the alternative, that the services performed were not correctly valued at the billed rate.