Perspective
May 18, 2013
Court rules insurer may hold policyholder's attorney-client privilege
The appellate court focused on the question, "Who can waive the privilege on behalf of a dissolved corporation with no officers, directors, or employees?" By J. Daniel Sharp
"Hard cases, it has frequently been observed, are apt to introduce bad law." So said English jurist Robert Rolfe, in the earliest reference to that familiar adage. Sometimes, though, a "hard case" is just an easy case in the hands of an imaginative lawyer and a receptive bench. The state Court of Appeal recently confronted an unusual set of facts in Melendrez v. Superior Court, 2013 DJDAR 5603 (April 30, 2013), and ha...
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