Magistrate Judge Recommends Slightly Reducing Insurer's Fee Award In Billing Suit

(July 23, 2020, 9:14 AM EDT) -- MIAMI — A federal magistrate judge in Florida on July 17 recommended reducing by 25 percent the amount of attorney fees sought by an insurer after it prevailed on a majority of its claims that a clinic and a number of doctors submitted upcoded bills for personal injury protection (PIP) benefits under the state's no-fault insurance law, finding that some of the charges were for duplicative services offered by lead and local counsel (Government Employees Insurance Co., et al. v. Quality Diagnostic Health Care Inc., et al., No. 18-20101, S.D. Fla., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128323)....