Cardenas v. Ramsey County

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing the word “recovered” could support more than one interpretation with respect to timing issues
• interpreting the language of a contingent fee agreement in light of the drafting attorney’s fiduciary status
• contingency fee contract entitling attorney to percentage of “total amount recovered” is ambiguous in light of structured settlement and must be interpreted to require payment to attorney only as client receives payments
• same as to a percentage of “the total amount recovered”
• applying a similar rule to a contingent fee agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).