Brock v. Mack Trucks, Inc.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Keniry, J.), entered January 24, 1991 in Rensselaer County, which granted a motion by plaintiffs’ law firm for its pro rata share of counsel fees.

The issues before us are whether Supreme Court properly found that (1) the Special Disability Fund (hereinafter Fund) benefited from plaintiffs settlement of its product liability action against defendants in the sum of $73,473.74, which represents the amount paid by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company (and for which the Fund could have been held liable) and the present value of future payments due to…