( March 22, 2024, 1:34 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A New York federal judge awarded a disability claimant more than $187,000 in attorney fees after finding that the award is warranted based on the claimant’s success on the merits of his claims for disability benefits and waiver of life insurance premium benefits and after applying a 10% reduction to the billed attorney fee rates and a 5% reduction to the billed number of hours....