In Breitman v. National Surety Corporation, the court was faced with the question of whether an insured could request attorney’s fees as part of consequential…
Month: October 2015
In Blackwell v. Allstate Insurance Company, the Court dismissed the insured’s bad faith claim as time barred after the insured failed to establish an exception…
In Liguori v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyds London, the court held that the statute of limitations had not run on the insured’s claim for breach…
In Assurity Life Insurance Company v. Nicholas, the insured raised various counterclaims. There was no bad faith count as such, but a count was pleaded…
In Mills v. Allstate Insurance Company, the insured homeowner brought breach of contract and bad faith counts based on smoke and soot damage, after the…
In Charbonneau v. Chartis Property Casualty Company, the Court had previously dismissed bad faith claims directly against the insurer, brought by an assignee of the…
In Scott v. Foremost Insurance Company, Judge Baylson was called upon again to address statutory bad faith claims in the claims handling process. The insureds…
In Hess v. Nationwide Life Insurance Company, the beneficiary of a life insurance policy pleaded that the insurer failed to pay full policy proceeds. The…
In Douglas v. Discover Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Judge Mariani again identified the issue that there is a split in authority on whether an…
In Skelcy v. United Health Group, Inc., the insured had sought to continue medication and a program of therapy which his doctors had successfully used…