In Ryan v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Hurricane Sandy case, the insurer was attempting to open a default judgment. In looking at the meritorious…
Month: April 2015
In Tippett v. Ameriprise Insurance Company, the court observed that unlike claims for breach of the contractual duty of good faith and fair dealing, the…
We posted a case summary yesterday, where the opinion, like many others, indicated that section 8371 bad faith can exist even where no benefit is…
In the court’s first decision in Hayes v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, the insured’s bad faith claim against the insurer was preempted by ERISA. …
In Schor v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, the court conducted an historical review of cases applying the Twombly/Iqbal standards to bad faith…
In Griffith v. Allstate Insurance Company, the insurer brought a Rule 42 motion to sever the bad faith and contract claims in this UIM case,…
In Scheirer v. Nationwide Insurance Company of America, the insured pleaded bad faith, among other claims, for an alleged inordinate delay in handling her claim.…