Sardella v. Champion Manufacturing Co.

In this workmen’s compensation case the Judge of Industrial Claims awarded a joint attorney’s fee of $9,700 for the services of the claimant, Leo C. Sardella’s, attorneys, Irving J. Whitman and Gerald Shapiro. Whitman represented claimant originally, but was replaced by Shapiro. There is a dispute between Whitman and Shapiro as to their respective shares, if any, in the awarded fee of $9,700. At one point in the cause the Industrial Relations Commission, by its order of February 12, 1971, remanded the cause for a determination by the Judge of Industrial Claims of the value of the respective…