http://employmentlawgroupblog.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://employmentlawgroupblog.com/2009/07/07/arb-rules-that-attorney-fee-award-need-not-be-proportional-to-damages-award/ http://employmentlawgroupblog.com/2009/07/07/arb-rules-that-attorney-fee-award-need-not-be-proportional-to-damages-award/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:17:37 +0000 admin http://employmentlawgroupblog.com/2009/07/07/arb-rules-that-attorney-fee-award-need-not-be-proportional-to-damages-award/ The Department of Labor’s Administrative Review Board (“ARB”) has affirmed an Administrative Law Judge’s decision to award a whistleblower nearly $70,000 in attorney fees and costs in a case where the whistleblower recovered $50,000 in back pay and compensatory damages.  In Collins v. Village of Lynchburg, Ohio, the Village argued that the Board should reverse the fee award of nearly $70,000 “[b]ecause the amount of the award is so large in comparison to the actual loss to [the] Complainant.”  The ARB expressly rejected this argument, concluding that “the fee in [a] whistleblower case need not be proportional to the recovery for the Complainant.”  For information on The Employment Law Group® law firm’s Whistleblower Practice, click here.

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