Insurance Claims and Bad Faith Law Blog: Bad Faith Attorney’s Fees Awarded for Dishonoring Florida Mediation Agreement.

The Florida Appellate Court upheld the imposition of Attorney’s Fees as sanctions for failure to keep an agreement made by a party at Mediation in this case, under a doctrine that Attorney’s Fees can be imposed as sanctions where a Court can determine that a party has engaged in “inequitable conduct”.  As described in the Appellate Court’s opinion, the inequitable conduct doctrine permits the assessment of Attorney’s Fees where one party has engaged in “‘egregious conduct or acted in bad faith.’”  Id. at *1.

 

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