Black v. Standard Guaranty Insurance

HEDRICK, Judge.

This appeal concerns only the judge’s award of a “reasonable attorney fee” to plaintiff’s counsel under G.S. § 6-21.1, which provides:

Allowance of counsel fees as part of costs in certain cases.— In any personal injury or property damage suit, or suit against an insurance company under a policy issued by the defendant insurance company and in which the insured or beneficiary is the plaintiff, upon a finding by the court that there was an unwarranted refusal by the defendant insurance company to pay the claim which constitutes the basis of such suit, instituted in a court of…