Pazienza v. Michetti

—In an action to recover damages for personal injuries, the plaintiff’s former attorneys, Finkelstein, Levine, Gittelsohn & Tetenbaum, appeal from an order of the Supreme Court, Orange County (Peter C. Patsalos, J.), dated January 9, 1996, which granted the plaintiff’s motion to determine counsel fees to the extent that the plaintiff’s present counsel, Daniel F. Gallivan, was determined to be entitled to fees on "the additional $25,000 settlement”.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

The plaintiff was a passenger in a vehicle which was involved in a collision with another vehicle.…