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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Theresa Logan, Plaintiff, v Werbel, Werbel & Strauss, P. C., Defendant and Third-Party Plaintiff-Respondent. Solomon M. Lowenbraun, Third-Party Defendant-Appellant, et al., Third-Party Defendant.
    [638 NYS2d 648]
   The letter from the non-appealing third-party defendant to third-party plaintiff, advising that he had been retained by plaintiff to prosecute her personal injury action and demanding the file, raises an issues of fact as to whether third-party defendant-appellant was retained by plaintiff, as he claims, solely to prosecute a legal malpractice action against third-party plaintiff, or whether he was retained as third-party plaintiff’s successor in the personal injury action (compare, Lott v Benjamin, 186 AD2d 951, lv denied 81 NY2d 704). Notably, third-party defendants were retained well before the running of the Statute of Limitations in the personal injury action (cf., Hansen v Brognano, 137 AD2d 880). Concur — Rosenberger, J. P., Ellerin, Rubin, Kupferman and Tom, JJ.