Seto

BACKGROUND

This appeal involves three distinct sets of facts or proceedings: (1) the personal injury action Schreiber filed in 2013 against Father, his six children, GPMC, and SKLE; (2) the 2015 FSA resolving disputes between the six siblings, which contains the release at issue; and (3) this action, filed in 2016 by the three elder siblings (Shacuan Sharon Seto, Gordon Lee, and Patricia Lum), Father, GPMC, and SKLE against David Samuelson and CSAA, the attorney and insurer responsible for representing the siblings and related parties in connection with the partial settlement in the Schreiber action.3 We summarize the relevant aspects of each below.

I. The Schreiber Action

Schreiber’s personal injury action led to an appeal decided in 2020 by our colleagues in Division One. (Schreiber v. Lee (2020) 47 Cal.App.5th 745 (Schreiber).) As that opinion details, Schreiber was seriously injured in 2013 when she fell through a skylight Father had built in her apartment’s deck. (Id. at p. 748.) Father had originally owned and developed the property but transferred ownership to his six children in the 1980s. (Id. at p. 749.) Beginning in the 1980s, SKLE managed the property. (Id. at pp.…