Magistrate Slashes Insurer’s Bill Of Costs, Denies Sanctions Against Clinic

Mealey's (April 13, 2021, 12:48 PM EDT) -- DETROIT — A federal magistrate judge in Michigan on April 12 refused to impose a $5,000 monetary sanction against a clinic over its failure to satisfactorily comply with a request from State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. to supplement its discovery response to emails from a specific account and reduced the bill of costs sought by the insurer after finding that the hourly rate for one of the insurer’s attorneys was not reasonable....