Lederer

*512 INTRODUCTION

Plaintiff Joyce Lederer employed accounting firm Gursey Schneider LLP and its employee Spencer Inada (collectively, Gursey) to manage her finances. As part of their agreement, Gursey purchased insurance for Joyce 1 and her family members. Joyce requested that Gursey purchase uninsured/underinsured insurance with a policy limit of $5 million. Gursey actually purchased a policy with a limit of only $1.5 million.

In February 2010, Joyce's adult son, Jonathan Lederer, was in a motorcycle accident that resulted in serious injuries. Shortly afterward, Joyce and Jonathan discovered that the limit on the policy Gursey purchased was only $1.5 million. In January 2012, the insurance company for the other driver involved in the accident tendered the $15,000 limit of the driver's policy to Jonathan. In June 2012, the insurance company tendered the $1.5 million limit of the underinsured motorist policy to Jonathan. In March 2013, Joyce and Jonathan sued Gursey, alleging that they had been damaged because they could not collect the additional money they would have been entitled to had Gursey purchased an insurance policy with the limits Joyce had *521 requested. Jonathan…