Sarkis v. Allstate Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a contingency multiplier may not be applied to a fee award pursuant to section 768.79
• recognizing that attorney’s fees authorized by section 768.79 are a sanction “for the refusal to accept what is presumed to be a reasonable offer [and] for unnecessarily continuing the litigation”
• “Attorney’s fees are authorized only by statute or contract. Because a supreme court rule is neither, it cannot authorize a fee.”
• “[A]ttorney fees awarded pursuant to the offer of judgment statutes are sanctions ... for unreasonable rejections of offers of judgment.”
• \[A]ttorney fees awarded pursuant to the offer of judgment statutes are sanctions... for unreasonable rejections of offers of judgment.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).