DUHAIME v. JOHN HANCOCK MUT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. CIV.A. 96-10706-GAO.

989 F.Supp. 375 (1997)

Richard DUHAIME; James W. Yoder; Donna M. Yoder; Theodore A. Peck; John Sullivan; and Clarissa Sullivan, On Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY; John Hancock Variable Life Insurance Company; and John Hancock Distributors, Inc., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

December 31, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glen DeValerio, Michael G. Lange, Berman, DeValerio & Pease, Boston, MA, Keith M. Fleischman, Melvyn I. Weiss, Barry A. Weprin, Brad N. Friedman, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Specthrie & Lerach, New York, NY, Douglas M. Brooks, David Pastor, Kenneth G. Gilman, Gilman & Pastor, Boston, MA, John J. Stoia, Jr., Andrew W. Hutton, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, John K. Grant, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Francisco, CA, Andrew S. Friedman, Sullivan Bunch H., Bonnett Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, Lawrence D. Shubow, Boston, MA, Joseph D. Ament, Michael B. Hyman, William H. London, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament, Bell & Rubenstein, Chicago, IL, W. Christian Hoyer, Tampa, FL, for Richard Duhaime.

Glen DeValerio, Michael G. Lange, Berman, DeValerio & Pease, Boston, MA, Keith M. Fleischman, Melvyn I. Weiss, Barry A. Weprin, Brad N. Friedman, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Specthrie & Lerach, New York, NY, Douglas M. Brooks, David Pastor, Kenneth G. Gilman, Gilman & Pastor, Boston, MA, John J. Stoia, Jr., Andrew W. Hutton, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Diego, CA, John K. Grant, Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, San Francisco, CA, Andrew S. Friedman, Sullivan Bunch H., Bonnett Fairbourn, Friedman & Balint, P.C., Phoenix, AZ, Lawrence D. Shubow, Boston, MA, Joseph D. Ament, Michael B. Hyman, William H. London, Much, Shelist, Freed, Denenberg, Ament, Bell & Rubenstein, Chicago, IL, W. Christian Hoyer, Tampa, FL, Ronald R. Parry, Arnzen, Parry & Wentz, P.S.C., Covington, KY, Stephen Hubbard, Cantilo, Maisel & Hubbard, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Maureen Hahn, Theodore A. Peck, John Sullivan, Clarissa Sullivan.

John G. Fabiano, Jeffrey B. Rudman, Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA, Edwin G. Schallert, Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY, for John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co., John Hancock Variable Life Ins. Co.

John G, Fabiano, Peter A. Spaeth, Andrea J. Robinson, Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA, for John Hancock Distributors, Inc.

J. Allen Holland, Jr., John R. Cavanaugh, Lynch, Brewer, Hoffman & Sands, Boston, MA, Diane A. Nygaard, Overland Park, KS, for Katherine Rose, Richard Beauvais, Phyllis Beauvais, Timothy Murphy, Deloris Goldberg.

Paul D. Gifford, Atty. Gen. of State of Cal., Oakland, CA, for California Ins. Com'r.

Joseph B. Lichtblau, Boston, MA, for Texas Plaintiffs.

Douglas Stevick, Brian Wolfman, Public Citizen Litigation Group, Washington, DC, for Howard M. Metzenbaum.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER REGARDING ATTORNEYS' FEES

O'TOOLE, District Judge.

The Court here considers class counsel's petition for approval of the payment of attorneys' fees in the amount of $39 million, plus expenses not to exceed $750,000, in accordance with the parties' agreement.

Background

This petition arises out of a settlement of a class action against the defendants John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, John Hancock...

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