Wisconsin Panel Affirms: Beneficiary Can’t Sue Lawyer Over Failure To Amend Will

(August 23, 2024, 2:09 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A daughter who is a named beneficiary of her father’s will lacks standing to pursue a negligence claim against her father’s attorney for failing to follow her father’s request to amend the will, a Wisconsin panel held, finding that the daughter failed to meet the narrow Auric v. Continental Cas. Co. exception to the state’s rule that a person lacks standing to sue another person’s attorney for his or her actions....

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