New Hampshire Insurance v. Quilantan

Richard L. Mays, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment an attorney’s fee of $12,500 under Ark. Stat. Ann. § 66-3238 (Repl. 1966) providing for an award of a reasonable attorney’s fee against an insurer who wrongfully refuses to pay under an insurance policy. The only question raised by appellant is whether the attorney’s fee award is excessive.

We previously held the award to be excessive in an earlier appeal in the same case because the record did not indicate the basis for the award. See New Hampshire Ins. Co. v. Quilantan, 263 Ark. 892, 569 S.W. 2d 102 (1978). The first $12,500 award was…