In addition, the limitation of personal liability of members does not extend to professional malpractice claims.

Discussion focuses on applying ethics rules and avoiding grievances and professional malpractice claims.

His practice concentrated on defense litigation and appellate advocacy in the areas of insurance, product liability and professional malpractice.

He specialized in civil litigation in several areas of law, including antitrust, securities fraud, commercial, product liability, professional malpractice and civil rights.

Most journalism pundits saw the case as a largely irrelevant one in terms of libel law, but a rare public symposium on what some call professional malpractice.

"No defendant wants to be the last principal defendant left for the jury to wreak their vengeance on," said Caroline Barron, a Phoenix lawyer who specializes in professional malpractice cases.

The investigation into the insurance industry by Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, has widened further, moving into the sale of professional malpractice insurance to law firms around the country.

National Practitioner Data Bank Assists covered entities to comply with legal requirement to report health professional malpractice and disciplinary actions and to query data bank when hiring or granting privileges.

The Economy The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the F.D.I.C. could recover some losses of failed savings institutions by suing an institution's outside lawyers and accountants for professional malpractice.

Paul Starr's book detailed the attempts of the American Medical Association to improve academic training of physicians, establish a canon of professional malpractice to weed out quacks, and to improve the professional status of physicians.

A third amended version of the suit, filed Dec. 4 in bankruptcy court in the Southern District of Florida, accuses the defendants of fraud and professional malpractice and seeks punitive and compensatory damages, among other things.

She charged fellow journalists who covered B'tselem's reports with "professional malpractice... As long as we continue to base our national debates and policies on enemy propaganda, it should surprise no one that Israel finds itself in its current dire predicament."

However, a mistaken or incomplete legal opinion may be grounds for a professional malpractice claim against the attorney, pursuant to which the attorney may be required to pay the claimant damages incurred as a result of relying on the faulty opinion.

Five months later, at the December meeting of the A.S.P.C.P., the board voted Marinoff executive director and, according to Cohen, asked him to look into professional malpractice insurance and nonprofit status, in order to establish the A.S.P.C.P. as a legal certifying body.

The request follows the report by Anton Valukas, the court appointed examiner looking into the bank's demise, in which he said that the global accountancy firm - one of the so-called 'Big Four' - could face legal claims for "professional malpractice" stemming from a number of negligent actions.

The investigation was sparked by the findings of US investigator Anton Valukas, who in March said in a report to the US bankruptcy court that the auditor could face legal claims for "professional malpractice" stemming from a number of what he deemed to be negligent actions.

Ames Department Stores Inc., which filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code in April 1990, said yesterday that it had sued its investment bankers for breach of fiduciary duty and professional malpractice in connection with the retailer's 1988 purchase of the Zayre Corporation.