Contractors and subcontractors may recover legal fees they incur during post-judgment attempts to collect money owed to them, a unanimous Superior Court panel has ruled.
Writing for the panel, Judge John M. Cleland ruled that the Contractor and Subcontractor Payment Act could never have been intended to require a plaintiff to use his or her award to pay attorney fees.
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