Sustained with 20 days leave to amend. Request for Judicial Notice: Court declines to grant the requests as the items are not material to determination of the demurrer. As the Court has declined to grant the request, the objections are moot. A cause of action for legal malpractice is generally not assignable for public policy reasons. White Mountains Reinsurance Company of America v. Borton Petrini LLP (2013) 221 Cal. App. 7th 890, 897. The only exception to the broad rule in where the legal malpractice claim is acquired as an incidental part of the purchase of one insurance company by another. In its opposition, Plaintiff does not opposed the demurrer on this ground in light of the court’s prior ruling. Instead, Plaintiff argues that it has other claims to allege against Defendants, specifically here, against Aklufi. Plaintiff asserts it can allege claims for fraud, theft, conspiracy, aiding and abetting and intentional interference with contractual relations, which claims are indepen
Hearing Date
April 10, 2018
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Sustained with 20 days leave to amend. Request for Judicial Notice: Court declines to grant the requests as the items are not material to determination of the demurrer. As the Court has declined to grant the request, the objections are moot. A cause of action for legal malpractice is generally not assignable for public policy reasons. White Mountains Reinsurance Company of America v. Borton Petrini LLP (2013) 221 Cal. App. 7th 890, 897. The only exception to the broad rule in where the legal malpractice claim is acquired as an incidental part of the purchase of one insurance company by another. In its opposition, Plaintiff does not opposed the demurrer on this ground in light of the court’s prior ruling. Instead, Plaintiff argues that it has other claims to allege against Defendants, specifically here, against Aklufi. Plaintiff asserts it can allege claims for fraud, theft, conspiracy, aiding and abetting and intentional interference with contractual relations, which claims are indepen