Legal Opinion
Kearney v. Auto-Owners Insurance
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided May 14, 2010No. 3:06-cv-00595PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AWARDING ATTORNEY’S FEES
SUSAN C. BUCKLEW, District Judge.
The Court now considers the motion, as corrected, from Defendant Auto-Owners Insurance Company for attorney’s fees in the amount of $258,883.50 and costs in the amount of $221,049.27. (Does. 596, 601.) Plaintiff Clayton Kearney urges the Court to cut the attorneys’s fees by 60 percent and award Auto-Owners $103,553.40. Kearney also asks the Court to award Auto-Owners no costs beyond those permitted in 28 U.S.C. § 1920. (Doc. 606.)
Upon review, the Court awards Auto-Owners attorney’s fees in the amount of $209,685.50. It denies…
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