LC CAPITAL PARTNERS v. FRONTIER INS. GROUP

No. 02-7155.

318 F.3d 148 (2003)

LC CAPITAL PARTNERS, LP, on behalf of itself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FRONTIER INSURANCE GROUP, INC., Harry W. Rhulen, Peter L. Rhulen, Mark H. Mishler, Patrick W. Kenny, Suzanne Rhulen Loughlin, Joseph P. Loughlin and Ernst & Young, LLP, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: January 28, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul D. Young, New York, N.Y. (Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP, New York, N.Y.; Susan Liebhard, Bernstein, Liebhard & Lifshitz, LLP, New York, N.Y.; Gene Cauley, Cauley & Geller, LLP, Little Rock, Ark., on the brief), for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Bruce M. Cormier, Washington, D.C. (Michael J. Crane, Ernst & Young, LLP, New York, N.Y.; Lawrence S. Robbins, Kathryn Schaefer Zecca, Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck & Untereiner LLP, Washington, D.C., on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Ernst & Young, LLP.

Bruce G. Vanyo, Palo Alto, CA (Laurie B. Smilan, Michele Rose, Lyle Roberts, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, McLean, VA, on the brief), for Defendant-Appellee Frontier Insurance Group, Inc.

Before: MESKILL, NEWMAN and POOLER, Circuit Judges.


JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge.

The issue on this appeal is whether plaintiffs, suing for stock fraud, were on inquiry notice that started the running of a statute of limitations early enough to render their suit time-barred. This issue arises in the context of an insurance company that took increasingly large reserve charges and did not disclose its continuing failure to establish adequate reserves. Plaintiff-Appellant LC Capital Partners, LP ("LC Capital") appeals...

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