Attorney Fees Awarded To Disability Claimant, But No Contingency Enhancement

(August 8, 2017, 12:21 PM EDT) -- DETROIT — A Michigan federal judge on Aug. 1 granted a disability claimant’s motion for attorney fees because the claimant achieved a modest level of success on the merits, but the judge refused to apply a contingency enhancement, as requested by the claimant’s attorney, after determining that a contingency enhancement is not appropriate when using the lodestar model to calculate the appropriate amount of attorney fees (Kyle D. Kennard v. Means Industries Inc., No. 11-15079, E.D. Mich., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 120457)....

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