Panel Reverses Attorney Fee Award In Coverage Dispute Over Superstorm Sandy Damage

(October 7, 2019, 1:36 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey appeals court panel on Oct. 4 held that a lower court’s award of attorney fees and costs to an excess insurer under the state’s frivolous litigation statute was “a mistaken exercise of discretion,” reversing in part in a lawsuit arising from Superstorm Sandy damage (Fedway Associates, Inc. v. Engle Martin & Associates, Inc., et al., No. A-0297-18T4, N.J. Super., App. Div., 2019 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 2048)....

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