A recent decision by the state Court of Appeals appears to give trial judges considerable leeway in denying attorney fees under a controversial fee-shifting rule.
The 5-2 decision upholds a Fulton County judge’s refusal to award fees to defendants who won a wrongful death case at trial. Based on the plaintiffs’ rejection of a $25,000 pretrial settlement offer, the winning defendants had sought the fees under the offer of settlement rule, a part of the 2005 tort reform package designed to
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