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CATINELLA v. MECCA & SON TRUCKING CORPORATION

2011-00445

90 A.D.3d 966 (2011)

934 N.Y.S.2d 849

2011 NY Slip Op 9576

NICHOLAS CATINELLA, Plaintiff, v. MECCA & SON TRUCKING CORPORATION et al., Defendants. LIPSIG, SHAPEY, MANUS & MOVERMAN, P.C., Nonparty Appellant; DAVID J. DETOFFOL, ESQ., P.C., Nonparty Respondent.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided December 27, 2011.

Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

This appeal concerns a dispute over the division of a contingency fee between the plaintiff's outgoing and incoming counsel in an action to recover damages for personal injuries. The Supreme Court awarded the outgoing counsel an attorney's fee in the sum of $17,500, which amounted to approximately seven percent of the total net contingency fee of $246,476.14.

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