Legal Opinion
Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Lafarge Corp.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided January 8, 1996No. Civil H-90-2390PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALEXANDER HARVEY, II, Senior District Judge.
The jury trial in this consolidated ease commenced on October 16, 1995 and lasted for almost three weeks. After deliberating for some five and one-half hours over a period of two days, the jury returned its verdict on November 2, 1995. The jury determined $8,410,000 to be the amount of attorneys’ fees and expenses which were reasonably and necessarily incurred by Lafarge Corporation and/or Lafarge Canada, Inc. (hereinafter “Lafarge”) in defending the claims asserted against them by Lone Star Corporation in the prior litigation. 1 This award amounted…
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- Lafarge Corp. v. Hartford Casualty InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1995
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3Cited by7 opinions
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