Standard Guar. Ins. Co. v. Quanstrom

How courts have described this case

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• reaffirming the relevant principles and holding that, in considering whether to apply a contingency fee multiplier, the trial court should consider the following factors: “(1) whether the relevant market requires a contingency fee multiplier to obtain competent counsel; (2
• evidence that the market requires a contingency fee multiplier to obtain competent counsel must be presented
• “[I]f the trial court determines that success was unlikely at the outset of the case, it may apply a multiplier of 2.0 to 2.5.”
• “Our case law implementing this statute requires a judge to consider the needs of the party seeking a fee and the financial resources of the parties to assure that both parties receive adequate representation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).