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Title: Higginbotham V. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Author : Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
Release Date : January 21, 1997
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 73 KB

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John Higginbotham brought suit against State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company alleging both contractual and extra-contractual causes of action. After the contractual claim was tried, Judge Lee Rosenthal of the Southern District of Texas, Houston Division granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant on plaintiff's extra-contractual claims. After assessing attorney fees, Judge Rosenthal proceeded to award and then retract an 18 percent statutory fee against the defendant. Plaintiff appeals both the summary judgment and the retraction of this fee. We affirm in part and reverse and remand in part.