A magistrate of the Southern District of Texas recommended taxing costs against an insured and imposing sanctions on the insured’s counsel under Rule 11 and 28 U.S.C. § 1927 in a homeowners insurance dispute, recommending that the insurer recover litigation costs in the amount of $9,799.55, $112,405.50 for attorneys’ fees, and $21,074.30 for expenses after the district court found that counsel filed factually and legally baseless claims, disrupted discovery, and pursued meritless litigation that unreasonably multiplied the proceedings.
