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Employer – Employee: Whistleblower Claim-Attorneys’ Fees-Award Multiplier
Staff Report//April 16, 2024//
Where appellants in a whistleblower case challenged the application of a 1.5 multiplier to an award of attorneys’ fees to the respondent, the application of the multiplier was supported by the evidence and was not an abuse of discretion.
Judgment is affirmed.
Warren-Cook v. Department of Public Safety (MLW No. 81370/Case No. WD85927 – 13 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, Thomson, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Cole County, Walker, J. (J. Andrew Hirth for respondent) (Ray Rhatican for appellants).
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