The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that the estate of James E. Beasley Sr. is not entitled to a reimbursement of $75,000 that Beasley and three former Beasley Firm lawyers had paid to settle a legal malpractice case.
In an unreported opinion in Pennsylvania Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association v. National Union Fire Insurance, a three-judge panel unanimously ruled that the estate’s claim for the $75,000, which represented the difference between the $25,000 deductible it paid to one insurer that eventually became insolvent and the $100,000 deductible it paid to another solvent insurer, did not constitute a “‘covered claim’” under the Pennsylvania Property and Casualty Insurance Guaranty Association Act.
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