Attorney Fee Of $125,800 Awarded In ERISA Row Over Life Insurance Benefits

(October 23, 2023, 2:13 PM EDT) -- TRENTON, N.J. — After the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed that a widow was entitled to life insurance benefits totaling $188,000 and awarded her $79,050 in attorney fees for the appeal, a New Jersey federal judge awarded her $125,800 in district court attorney fees in the “particularly adversarial” Employee Retirement Income Security Act case....