HARVARD FARMS, INC. v. NATIONAL CAS. CO.

No. 92-533.

617 So.2d 400 (1993)

HARVARD FARMS, INC., etc., et al., Appellants, v. NATIONAL CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

Rehearing Denied May 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard A. Sherman and Rosemary Wilder, Ligman, Martin & Evans, Fort Lauderdale, for appellants.

Jorden, Schulte & Burchette, Elizabeth M. Bohn and W. Barry Blum, Miami, for appellee.

Before HUBBART, NESBITT and BASKIN, JJ.


NESBITT, Judge.

This is another of the seemingly never-ending appeals from orders awarding attorney's fees under the lodestar approach. Here, we are required to determine whether the trial court erred in refusing to even consider the risk multiplier in fixing a fee based upon an oral contingency fee agreement between the attorney and client. In the present case, the trial court declined to consider such a risk multiplier on the ground that the oral contingency fee...

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