Williamson v. Government Employees Insurance

Plaintiff appeals a supplemental judgment denying her attorney fees, challenging the trial court’s rejection of her exceptions, ORS 36.425(6), to the arbitrator’s denial of her fee petition. The trial court sustained the arbitrator’s determination that plaintiff had no entitlement to attorney fees under ORS 20.080 and further held that, because plaintiff had not invoked ORS 20.082 as a possible ground for fee entitlement before the arbitrator, that ground was not cognizable before the trial court on its review of plaintiffs exceptions. We agree with the trial court’s reasoning and,…