An arbitration panel has ordered the firm of Houston plaintiffs lawyer John M. O'Quinn to pay $35.7 million in damages to a class of 3,450 former breast implant clients who allege the firm overcharged them for expenses. With interest and attorney fees, the order calls for the firm to pay as much as $58 million to the plaintiffs and their attorneys. One of the arbitrators on the panel noted that plaintiffs lawyers have been "struggling for years" on how to handle general expenses in a mass tort case.
July 23, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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An arbitration panel has ordered the firm of Houston plaintiffs lawyer John M. O’Quinn to pay $35.7 million in damages to a class of 3,450 former breast implant clients who allege the firm overcharged them for expenses.
With interest and attorney fees, the order calls for O’Quinn’s firm to pay as much as $58 million to the plaintiffs and their attorneys. The O’Quinn Law Firm was formerly known by several names, but the arbitrators refer to the firm throughout the order as “O’Quinn.”
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