Quinn Emanuel Wants $185 Million, Insurers Offer $9 Million (1)

Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart & Sullivan’s “astronomical” bid for a $185 million fee in an Obamacare case should be slashed by 95%, according to a pair of insurers that the firm represented.

Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co. in a court filing Thursday slammed Quinn Emanuel’s fee request. They asked a judge to instead pay the firm less than $9 million in a case that resulted in the federal government paying $3.7 billion to a group of health insurers.

The fee dispute is one of the final stages in a pair of long-running class actions stemming from payments ...