In Clemens v. New York Central Mutual Fire Insurance Company, plaintiff brought a UIM bad faith case, with the chief issues focusing on the 39…
Month: January 2015
In Encompass Insurance Company v. Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Company, the court addressed the standards for awarding counsel fees under Rule 4:42-9(a)(6) to a successful…
In Guglielmelli v. State Farm Mut. Automobile Insurance Company, the insured brought breach of contract and bad faith claims seeking damages for bodily injury under…
A state-wide podiatrist society asserted that a health insurer violated its duty of good faith and fair dealing in deciding not to cover a medical…
The Tort Talk Blog has reported on a Lackawanna County Common Pleas case where the court would neither sever the bad faith claim in a UIM…
In Easy Corner, Inc. v. State National Insurance Company, the court made clear the significance of a bad faith’s plaintiff’s need to prove something more than…
In Lyman v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, plaintiffs brought breach of contract and bad faith claims against their UIM insurer. The carrier sought…
In Bruno v. Erie Insurance Company, the Supreme Court affirmed the existence of the “gist of the action” doctrine. Rather than viewing this as a…
In Jacoby v. AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company, it was alleged that the insured purchased a life insurance policy that required an initial series of…
In Plunkett v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, a federal district court was once again faced with a motion to remand a removed bad faith action,…