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A St. Louis law firm and two attorneys are petitioning the Illinois Supreme Court to review the Fifth District Appellate Court’s ruling that punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice cases.

View Comments Rancho Road is closed between Shasta View Drive and Airport Road after a two-vehicle collision that sent one person to the hospital Thursday morning. Redding police Sgt. Gary Meadows said around 8 a.m. that stretch of road could stay closed for another two hours as the investigation continues. The collision was reported just before 7 a.m. Meadows said one of the vehicles left the road and struck another vehicle. Police don’t know why the vehicle left the road. Meadows also did n...

Moore The Fifth District Appellate Court held that punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice cases, concluding that in such circumstances the punitive damages are “compensatory in nature.”  “In short, we agree that punitive damages that are assessed against a litigant as a proximate result of the professional negligence of its attorney are not, in the context of a subsequent legal malpractice action against the attorney, punitive in nature but are,...

Moore The Fifth District Appellate Court held that punitive damages are recoverable in legal malpractice cases, concluding that in such circumstances the punitive damages are “compensatory in nature.”  “In short, we agree that punitive damages that are assessed against a litigant as a proximate result of the professional negligence of its attorney are not, in the context of a subsequent legal malpractice action against the attorney, punitive in nature but are,...