Insured needn’t prove tangible losses in bad faith suit
An insured suing for bad faith is not required to prove economic or physical injury in order to recover damages for emotional distress allegedly caused by the termination of her long-term care...
View ArticleAuto insurer hit with $10 million bad faith verdict
A jury has awarded $10 million to an Ohio couple whose insurer refused to pay their auto claim or provide a lawyer for their defense for hitting another car in an accident that killed one person and...
View ArticleBenchmarks: Asbestos lawyers must pay $420K fraud verdict
Two Mississippi lawyers last week failed in their bid to overturn a $420,000 federal verdict against them for their alleged fraud and bad faith in obtaining asbestos settlements. Attorneys William Guy...
View ArticleState Farm faces liability for dragging feet in settlement
State Farm may have engaged in bad faith by taking nearly three years to settle a third-party claim under one of its automobile policies, the 6th Circuit has ruled in reversing a summary judgment. In...
View ArticleWorkers’ comp insurer can’t be sued for bad faith
An injured employee could not sue a workers’ compensation insurance carrier for breaching a common-law duty of good faith and fair dealing, the Texas Supreme Court has ruled in reversing judgment. The...
View ArticleWorker can’t sue comp insurer for bad faith
An employee could not sue his employer’s workers’ compensation insurer for pain and suffering allegedly caused by wrongful delays in the payment of his medical bills, the New Jersey Supreme Court has...
View ArticleInsurer doesn’t owe duty of good faith to foster child
An insurance company that provided foster care liability insurance did not owe a duty of good faith to a foster child who died from neglect, the 10th Circuit has ruled in affirming judgment. The...
View ArticleBad faith plaintiff may see entire claims file
An insurance company sued for bad faith could prevent the discovery of the plaintiff’s claims file only to the extent that the file included privileged attorney communications, the Washington Supreme...
View ArticleGovernment’s destruction of evidence warranted jury instruction
A drug defendant was not required to show bad faith in order to be entitled to an adverse-inference jury instruction as a remedy for the government’s destruction of evidence, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...
View ArticleChapter 7 case dismissed due to prepetition bad faith
Prepetition bad faith on the part of a debtor provided “cause” under the Bankruptcy Code for the dismissal of his Chapter 7 case, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in affirming judgment....
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