Opinion ID: 2966900
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Heading: the amount of benefits we have paid

Text: RIGHT OF SUBROGATION If you or your covered dependent has a claim for damages or a right to recover damages from a third party or parties for any illness or injury for which benefits are payable under this plan, we are subrogated to such claim or right of recovery. Our right of subrogation will be to the extent of any benefits paid or payable under this plan, and shall include any compromise settlement. . . . (J.A. at 69 (emphasis added).) Based on these provisions, McGill filed a complaint for declaratory judgment and then moved for summary judgment. In both her answer to the complaint and response to the summary judgment motion, Stinnett acknowledged McGill's right to reimbursement for the medical expenses but insisted that McGill must reduce the amount of the lien by one-third to account for the attorney's fees expended in order to recover from the negligent driver. The district court agreed and, although granting summary judgment in favor of McGill, reduced McGill's award because it was the fair, appropriate, and equitable determination under the circumstances of this case. (J.A. at 112.) McGill now appeals that portion of the district court's decision reducing its reimbursement of benefits paid by one-third to cover Stinnett's attorney's fees.