Maudine B. Smith v. Horace Mann Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Non-Argument Calendar.
1Per curiam
Appellant, Maudine B. Smith, an administrative principal in the Muscle Shoals school system, appeals the judgment of the district court limiting the amount of her recovery for attorney’s fees to $1,000 and granting summary judgment in favor of appellee, Horace Mann Insurance Company, on her claim of bad faith refusal to pay. Alabama law governs this diversity action.
Appellant claims that she is entitled to $15,758.00 in attorney’s fees, the actual cost of legal representation in her successful defense of an action by a former Muscle Shoals school principal, Charles L. Carter, who claimed that…
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