Losing plaintiffs often argue after an anti-SLAPP shellacking that a defendant is limited to what an insurance company paid defense counsel. Typically, those rates are "insurance rates," and are thus way below market rates. But this is wrong. Courts have consistently declined to cap the reasonable hourly rate to what was paid by an insurer. In Pasternack v. McCullough … [Read more...] about Is the reasonably hourly rate capped to what was paid by an insurer for purposes of determining the lodestar?