Does an attorney have a legal right to stipulate away an insured's rights without his consent for the benefit of his other client, the insurance company?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Buchanan v. Buchanan, 160 Cal.Rptr. 577, 99 Cal.App.3d 587 (Cal. App. 1979):
Defendant cites Ivy v. Pac. Auto Ins. Club (1958) 156 Cal.App.2d 652, 663, 320 P.2d 140, 148, as authority for the proposition that an attorney has "no legal right to stipulate away the insured's rights without his consent for the benefit of his other client, the insurance company." This proposition begs the question, which is: did the attorney act in defendant's best interests in
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