Here's a litigation head-scratcher: Does a prevailing plaintiff ever have a right to contest the legal fees incurred by the defense? That's the unusual question pending before a Texas court. A prevailing plaintiff is suing law firm Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons, which represented the defendant in the underlying insurance claim dispute, alleging the firm charged too much to defend its client, thus reducing the plaintiff's recovery due to an eroding-limits provision in the defendant's insurance policy.
March 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Here’s a litigation head-scratcher: Does a prevailing plaintiff ever have a right to contest the legal fees incurred by the defense?
That’s the unusual question pending before Smith County Court-at-Law No. 2 Judge Randall L. Rogers in a rare case in which a plaintiff is suing a law firm, alleging the firm charged too much to defend its client in an underlying insurance-claim dispute.
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