Seventh Circuit Finds Insurer In Derivative Case Owed Policyholder Reimbursement For Fee Multiplier in Fee Award.
In Caroline Cas. Ins. Co. v. Merge Healthcare Solutions, Inc., the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that an insurer reimbursing a policyholder for a paid fee award in a shareholder derivative lawsuit had to reimburse not only the base lodestar but any enhanced fees based on a multiplier. It found that an exclusion for punitive damages, trebled damages, or criminal fines and penalties was not remotely close akin to adversaries’ attorney’s fees in commercial litigation.
Toyota Unintended Acceleration Class Action Objectors Ask For Millions In Fees And Reduction Of Class Action Fee Award.
A group of attorneys representing objectors have asked for $8.25 million in fees based on the value objectors allegedly added to the class action recovery, asking also for a reduction in the class counsel fee award by roughly $87 million.
Whistleblower Environmental Group Plaintiff Must Pay Disney’s Fees In Defending a Baseless Qui Tam Suit.
U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee (C.D. Cal.) has ordered that an environmental group bringing a baseless qui tam suit over alleged water pollution near Disney’s Burbank production facilities must pay Disney’s legal fees for defending the suit.
Seventh Circuit Dismissed Objector Challenge to Motorola Case $55 Million Fee Award.
The Seventh Circuit also rejected an objector’s challenge to a $55 million fee award to lead class counsel in Motorola Solutions Inc.’s settlement over 3G phone delay claims brought by investors.
L.A. Agrees to Pay $950,000 in Fees to Pay Attorneys In Jewish Prayer House Case.
Congregation Etz Chaim sued Los Angeles in 2010, challenging its denial of a conditional use permit to use an enlarged Hancock Park home as an Orthodox Jewish prayer house. U.S. District Judge Christina A. Snyder (C.D. Cal.) agreed that the city’s permit denials violated federal law and then issued a mandatory injunction allowing the congregation to use the home as a synagogue subject to event and parking restrictions. The L.A. City Council recently voted, unanimously, to pay Congregation’s attorneys $950,000 in settlement of the dispute.