Disabled Lawyer Loses Attorneys’ Fee Appeal Against Provident

A personal injury lawyer who successfully sued Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. for disability benefits didn’t adequately support his request for more than $250,000 in attorneys’ fees, the Sixth Circuit said.

Provident’s repeated attempts to avoid paying the lawyer’s disability benefits is “evidence of a highly culpable course of conduct” that weighs in favor of awarding attorneys’ fees, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Tuesday in an unpublished opinion. But the district court nevertheless correctly denied the lawyer’s request for fees, the appeals court said, because he didn’t show that the fees he requested ...