Mealey's (November 5, 2021, 1:11 PM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A California appeals panel on Nov. 2 affirmed a lower court’s ruling in favor of a law firm and its attorney arising from clients’ claims that they would have been able to collect a $2 million judgment against an insolvent insurer but for the law firm and attorney’s lack of due diligence in obtaining a $3.5 million default judgment against a contractor, finding that whether the law firm committed malpractice was irrelevant because the clients’ could not have won their insurance case....