Richards v. LOUISIANA CITIZENS PROPERTY INS. CORP.

CARL E. STEWART, Circuit Judge:

Defendant-Appellant American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc. (“American Home”) appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Appellee Kevin C. Schoenberger (“Schoenberger”). Schoenberger represented Jocelyn Richards (“Richards”) on a contingency fee basis in litigation with her insurance company where she sought an increased settlement offer for damage sustained to her property during Hurricane Katrina. After obtaining the increased settlement amount, American Home, who holds the mortgage to Richards’s home and is named as an additional…