Attorney’s fees in breach of contract actions
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case ACMAT Corp. v. Greater New York Mutual Insurance (2007)
Most recently applied in 210 F. Supp. 3d 310 - Doe v. Brown University (September 2016)
P.L. 1985, ch. 394, § 1; P.L. 1990, ch. 371, § 2.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The court may award a reasonable attorney’s fee to the prevailing party in any civil action arising from a breach of contract in which the court:
(1) Finds that there was a complete absence of a justiciable issue of either law or fact raised by the losing party; or
(2) Renders a default judgment against the losing party.
Official source: Rhode Island General Assembly. Reproduced from public-domain Rhode Island statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.