{"id":864,"date":"2019-06-25T19:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T19:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/?p=864"},"modified":"2024-05-31T01:17:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:17:55","slug":"bkn-obtains-a-pair-of-appellate-victories-for-its-clients-before-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/?p=864","title":{"rendered":"BKN obtains a pair of appellate victories for its clients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BKN attorneys Robert Baker and Derrick Lowe successfully pursued a pair of appeals on behalf of two separate clients to wrap up Spring of this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first, argued before the Ninth Circuit in May, resulted in the reversal of a summary judgment in an insurance bad faith matter.  The District Court improperly granted summary judgment against our client, a Southern California school district, a decision that the Ninth Circuit rectified by holding that the defendant insurance company had in-fact breached its duty to defend to our client.  As a result, our client was able to recover over $1.4 million in defense costs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the second, argued before the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco at the beginning of June, followed the full dismissal of a legal malpractice claim against our client on a demurrer.  The Court of Appeal, in a carefully drafted opinion, examined each of the many grounds that the trial court relied on to sustain the demurrer and ultimately upheld the trial court&#8217;s decision in full, finally ending this long-running malpractice claim against our client.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BKN attorneys Robert Baker and Derrick Lowe successfully pursued a pair of appeals on behalf of two separate clients to wrap up Spring of this year. The first, argued before the Ninth Circuit in May, resulted in the reversal of a summary judgment in an insurance bad faith matter. The District Court improperly granted summary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/1013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}