National Foundation Life Insurance Co. v. Wellington

The defendant National Foundation Life Insurance Company appeals from a final judgment, entered upon a special interrogatory jury verdict; the plaintiffs, in turn, appeal from an attorney’s fee award entered in their favor which they assert as being inadequate. We affirm both the final judgment and the attorney’s fee order based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

First, we reject the defendant’s sole point on appeal that the trial court should have entered judgment in its favor based on the special interrogatory verdict. The jury found that the defendant had breached its agreement…