FORBES v. AMERICAN BLDG. MAINTENANCE WEST

No. 82950-1.

240 P.3d 790 (2010)

Cheryl FORBES, Petitioner, and Colleen Myers, Plaintiff, AMERICAN BUILDING MAINTENANCE COMPANY WEST; ABM Janitorial Services; ABM Industries Inc., Defendants, and Mary Schultz, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided October 7, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bryce James Wilcox , Michael D. Franklin , Attorneys at Law, Spokane, WA, Kenneth Scott Kagan , Carney Badley Spellman , Seattle, WA, for Petitioner.

Mary Elizabeth Schultz , Mary Schultz Law, P.S., Spokane, WA, for Respondent.


C. JOHNSON, J.

¶ 1 This case asks us to make two determinations regarding this lengthy attorney fee dispute. We must decide whether the trial court properly awarded prejudgment interest and whether the attorney's contingency fee should have been based on the satisfaction of judgment amount rather than the settlement amount. The trial court awarded prejudgment interest and calculated the contingency fee from the settlement...

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