The estate of a man killed during a shooting spree at a psychiatric facility must pay more than $500,000 in fees to the law firm it hired to investigate civil actions and handle mediation, the Superior Court has ruled.
Despite Michael Schaab’s estate never signing a $1.5 million settlement release prepared by Farrell & Reisinger and the estate taking its case to a new attorney, a unanimous three-judge panel of the court ruled in a Dec. 14 memorandum opinion that the firm had carried out its side of a fee agreement with the estate. The court affirmed an order of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Orphans’ Court.
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