Paull v. First UNUM Life Insurance

—Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed without costs and matter remitted to Supreme Court for further proceedings in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court erred in awarding plaintiffs $30,000 in attorneys’ fees without conducting a hearing. In a prior order the court had awarded plaintiffs sanctions against defendant First UNUM Life Insurance Company (First UNUM) in the form of “attorneyfs’] fees expended in litigating all discovery motions in this action,” and in the order before us on this appeal the court set the amount at $30,000. A hearing is…