Nationwide Retirement Solutions, Inc. is not responsible for paying a codefendant’s attorney fees and court costs in a class action because a party can’t be indemnified for defending claims stemming from its own allegedly wrongful actions, the Alabama Supreme Court has ruled.
Nationwide appealed from a lower court judgment awarding $1.1 million in attorney fees and $29,000 in expenses to codefendant PEBCO Inc. Those fees and costs stemmed from a class action and from PEBCO litigating a cross-claim for indemnification.
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