0558 In an attorney malpractice action in which plaintiff alleges that defendant attorney mishandled the settlement of plaintiff's claim against a third party for a particular loss, the collateral sources rule prohibits admission, to establish plaintiff's damages in the malpractice case, of evidence concerning the plaintiff's first party insurance recovery for the same loss, but the plaintiff's first party insurance recovery might be admissible for some other purpose.CitationNORTON v SUPERIOR COURT (Collateral Source Malpractice) 24 CA4 1750 [See: Helfend v SCRTD 2 C3 1; CCP 2017]
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