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3323 REVIEW GRANTED Negligence by an attorney that resulted in reversal of the client’s judgment for punitive damages in an underlying action may make the attorney liable to the client for the amount of punitive damages the client would have collected had the attorney not been negligent; the statute of limitations does not begin to run on such a claim until the punitive damages judgment in the underlying action is reversed.CitationO'CONNOR v BRODKIN (Malpractice Puni’s) 99 CA4 488 [See: Laird v Blacker 2 C4 606; Jordache v Brobeck 18 C4 739, T/AT 9/98; PPG v Transamerica 20 C4 310, T/AT 6/99; Piscitelli v Friedenberg 87 CA4 953, T/AT 4/01; Auto Equity v Superior Court 57 C2 450]
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