Daniel v. Arkansas Department of Human Services

1 iThis appeal raises the following issue: Does statutory postjudgment interest on attorney’s fees accrue when the right thereto was first established or when the fees were actually quantified in dollars and cents? The circuit court entered a money judgment confirming a jury verdict; by the same order, it also ruled that the plaintiff was entitled to attorney’s fees. However, the court specified the precise attorney’s fee amount by a separate order entered months later. We hold that statutory postjudgment interest on the attorney’s fees accrues from this second order, which quantified the…