Kernrechtsfrage
Whether the claimed loss from inability to pass attorney fees on to co-involved parties was legally cognizable damage when part of the fees had been paid through third-party process indemnities.
Extrahierter Entscheid
Only the portion of the lawyer's fee that the client had actually advanced or paid beyond her own share could constitute damage; amounts covered by process indemnities could not.
Extrahierte Begründung
The client can suffer an involuntary diminution of assets only to the extent she prepaid or paid the lawyer's fee beyond her own share. If the opposing party paid process indemnities reducing the fee debt, there is no loss of a claim that the client could have passed on to others, because she made no corresponding advance. The cantonal court therefore misconstrued the notion of damage under Art. 42 Abs. 2 OR.