(April 19, 2024, 12:50 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — Class counsel’s “excellent result” in obtaining a settlement compensating claimants who paid out-of-pocket for hearing aids and hearing-loss related services regardless of whether they submitted a claim to the insurer warrants 33.3% in attorney fees, a federal judge in Washington said April 18 in granting final approval to the settlement in a case involving claims that the insurer’s exclusion of coverage for certain hearing loss products and care constituted discrimination under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act....