Judge Orders Payment For Half Of Special Master’s Fees In Auto Insurance Dispute

Mealey's (August 26, 2019, 1:39 PM EDT) -- WHEELING, W.Va. — Noting “sympathy” for an equitable argument concerning a plaintiff insurer’s receivership, a federal judge in West Virginia on Aug. 21 ordered two other plaintiffs to pay their half of the fees for a special master and guardians ad litem in a dispute arising out of a 20-plus motor vehicle and tractor-trailer accident (Spirit Commercial Auto Risk Retention Group, et al. v. Randall Ryan Shreve, et al., No. 18-31, N.D. W.Va., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 141891)....