Dumlao v. State Farm Insurance

In an action, inter alia, to recover first-party no-fault insurance benefits pursuant to a contract of insurance issued by the defendant, the defendant appeals from so much of a judgment of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Roberto, J.), entered August 9, 1989, as awarded counsel fees pursuant to 11 NYCRR 65.17 (b) (6) (vi) in the amount of $5,000 to the plaintiff’s attorneys.

Ordered that the judgment is modified, on the law and the facts, by deleting the provision thereof awarding the plaintiff’s attorneys $5,000 in counsel fees and substituting therefor a provision awarding them $850 in…