Wawa Data Breach Settlement’s $3 Million Lawyers Fee Rejected

A federal appeals court has vacated over $3 million in attorneys’ fees awarded as part of a $12.2 million data breach settlement against Wawa Inc.

The fee award issue now is remanded to the district court “to take a closer look at the reasonableness of the attorney’s fees in proportion to class benefit and to scrutinize the presence of side agreements,” said Judge Paul Matey, writing for the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in an opinion released Thursday.

Among the appeals court’s concerns with the fee award were “side agreements between class counsel and Wawa” ...