A nearly $200,000 attorney fee award was vacated by an appellate panel that found a hearing officer failed to “develop the record as to the reasonableness” of the amount.
Ruling in S.T.A. Parking Corp. v. Lancer Ins. Co., 108091/08, a unanimous panel of the Appellate Division, First Department, said Judicial Hearing Officer Ira Gammerman, “after a very abbreviated hearing, awarded attorneys’ fees of $196,372.33, the exact amount that was sought, to the penny.”
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