UNC Health to Pay $1.1 Million Attorneys’ Fees in Bias Lawsuit

Sight-impaired patients won a combined attorneys’ fee award of more than $1.1 million against the University of North Carolina Health System in a disability discrimination lawsuit.

All three federal laws involved in the litigation, the Americans With Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, and Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, permit awards to prevailing parties in civil right litigation, the US District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina said March 8. Two sets of plaintiffs here qualified as prevailing, based on the results they achieved, it said.

Timothy Miles, the National Federation for the Blind, and Disability Rights ...