A court of the Western District of Texas adopted a magistrate’s recommendation to grant in part an ERISA plaintiff’s motion for attorneys’ fees, costs, and prejudgment interest against a health insurer by applying out-of-district “home-market” rates for experienced ERISA health-benefits counsel through the lodestar method following the Fifth Circuit’s reversal and rendition of judgment in favor of the plaintiff on claims for wrongful termination of eating-disorder treatment benefits and failure to process claims at the MultiPlan rate.
