Attorneys: Restrictions to legal fees in insurance claims cases would be challenged

Writing for the Florida-based free market think tank James Madison Institute, Christian R. Camara, senior fellow and co-founder of the libertarian R Street Institute, called for barring trial lawyers from accessing one-way attorneys fees when representing third-party vendors “especially when the policyholder has surrendered control of the policy.”

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