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Spokane to Increase Outside Counsel Spending for Water-Rate Trial; Insurance Litigation Counsel Retained
Summary
City staff told the council they will expand two outside special-counsel contracts: one to defend a class-action challenge to Spokane water rates with trial set Dec. 8, and a second to respond to litigation from an insurer seeking to deny coverage for defense costs in the Durgin-related case.
City staff told the Spokane City Council during its Oct. 27 agenda-review meeting that the administration will increase outside-counsel spending to prepare for a December trial over the city’s water rates and will retain specialty insurance-defense counsel in separate litigation.
Elizabeth Shadle, a city staff member briefing the council, said the first contract, with attorney Edward…
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