Spensieri v. Farmers Alliance Mutual Insurance Co.

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• holding that when an attorney fee award is made under a statute that does not define “reasonable,” the award should be determined “in light of all circumstances” (emphasis added)
• “The criterion for the court is not what the parties agreed, but what reflects reasonable value for services rendered.”
• estimate of a reasonable attorney fee involves a calculation of the “lodestar” amount, which represents the number of hours reasonably expended multiplied by a reasonable hourly rate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).