In Re Estate of Lash

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• allowing attorneys’ fees as part of recoverable damages for attorney malfeasance in an action on a surety bond
• awarding counsel fees to estate incurred in suit to establish surety's liability for administrator's defalcation
• awarding counsel fees to estate incurred in suit to establish surety’s liability for administrator’s defalcation
• finding no abuse of discretion in an award of prejudgment interest in accordance with R. 4:42-11
• departing from American rule only when there is “express authorization by statute, court rule, or contract ... or when the interests of equity demand it” [citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted]
• “[U]nless there is a bond provision to the contrary, the surety’s liability is coextensive with the principal’s liability[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).