Court Opinion

ID: 9784653
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-30 20:50:26.922199+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:42:25.340131
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OPALA, V.C.J.,
dissenting.
I must recede from today’s pronouncement. The court’s restrictive construction of the attorney’s-fee allowance provisions of 36 O.S.2001 § 1219 and § 3629(B) offends the prohibition of disuniformity in court-applied procedural norms. That interdiction stands imposed by the provisions of Art. 5 § 46, Okl.Const. See Johnson v. Tony’s Town Mister Quik, 1996 OK 138, ¶ 5, 915 P.2d 355, 357-58; Reynolds v. Porter, 1988 OK 88, ¶¶ 13-19, 760 P.2d 816, 822; Maule v. Independent School Dist. No. 9, 1985 OK 110, ¶ 12, 714 P.2d 198, 203-204. For my own analysis of the insurer’s counsel-fee liability in this very cause see Barnes v. Oklahoma Farm Bureau Mutual Ins. Co., 2000 OK 55, 11 P.3d 162, 183-190 (Opala, J., dissenting).