This is something you don’t see every day, namely an award of significant attorney’s fees to the prevailing defendant in an ERISA governed action. In R.I. Carpenters Annuity Fund v. Trevi Icos Corp., just decided by the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island (but not yet up on its website),
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The Five Factor Test for Attorney’s Fee Awards Under ERISA
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Here’s a nice follow up ruling in the case of Curran v Camden National, a particularly interesting ERISA case that I discussed here. In this newest ruling, the United States District Court for the District of Maine denied the motion of the defendant – which had earlier successfully moved to dismiss the…
Attorney Fee Awards in Insurance Coverage Litigation
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When I was first starting out as a lawyer, stuck with research assignments that required figuring out all aspects of a particular state’s law on a particular issue, I always liked to begin by looking for a federal district court decision on the subject, because the federal court decisions had a tendency to include a…
Attorney Fee Awards in the First Circuit
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There was another important issue addressed in the First Circuit’s decision this month in Janeiro, one I had planned to address in a return post on the case, involving an issue dear to the hearts of anyone who sues plans, administrators or fiduciaries for a living, namely the right to recover attorneys’ fees in…
How Do You Calculate a Fee Award to a Solo Practitioner?
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There is a neat little ERISA decision just out from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. In the case of James McDonald et al. v. Pension Plan of the NYSA-ILA Pension Trust Fund, et al., http://www.ca2.uscourts.gov/ decided on Tuesday, the court addressed the question of determining an appropriate fee award under ERISA for a…
Ringing the bell twice
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There is an interesting article concerning the latest developments over the case of Jurinko v. Medical Protective Corp., the largest insurance bad faith verdict in Pennsylvania history, reprinted in Law.com from The Legal Intelligencer, at http://www.law.com/jsp/law/sfb/lawArticleSFB.jsp?id=1144330160389. The article concerns the plaintiffs’ lawyers attempt to make new law that would increase the attorney’s fee…