Judge Approves Counsel Fees Of $11.5M In Mass. Soldiers’ Home $57M COVID Death Suit

Mealey's (November 17, 2022, 1:28 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge approved class counsel’s $11.5 million attorney fee request after the commonwealth of Massachusetts paid $57 million to resolve a class action filed by veterans and the estates of veterans who died at the Soldiers’ Home in Holyoke, Mass., from COVID-19 and on behalf of other residents who died from or contracted COVID-19 there, finding the award of attorney fees “reasonable.”...