Home Insurance Co. v. Drescher

Upon consideration of this case after hearing oral argument, we have concluded that the writ was improvidently issued and should be and hereby is discharged. However, the issue of attorneys’ fees involved in this case should not remain unsettled and warrants our discussion.

In 1967 the Legislature amended F.S. § 627.0127 of the Insurance Code, F.S.A. to allow appellate courts to grant reasonable attorneys’ fees to any insured or named beneficiary under a policy or contract of insurance involved in an appeal in which a judgment or decree was rendered against an insurer in favor of the insured…