The insured asked Eastern District Judge Pratter to reconsider her rulings in this matter, issued two weeks earlier. Those rulings are summarized in this post.…
Category: PA - Work Product
It has been nearly 15 years since our first bad faith blog post, summarizing an opinion by the late Judge Albert Sheppard. Today’s summary is…
This Pennsylvania federal opinion addresses bad faith discovery disputes. The case involved first party fire damage losses. Plaintiffs sought various claims file documents, and the…
The instant dispute involves the depositions of the claims handler and a corporate designee, as well as the scope of document discovery. The insurer made…
In this underinsured motorist bad faith case, Eastern District Judge DuBois denied both a motion to dismiss on ripeness grounds, and an alternative motion to…
This case involves a head-spinning array of factual discrepancies between the insured’s claims to the carrier and the results of the insurer’s investigation. These range from…
The good news: The court in Ferguson v. USAA General Indemnity takes on the issue of whether a statutory bad faith claim can survive if…
In this first-party property damage case, Judge Conner addressed a motion to sever and stay a bad faith claim, as well as a motion for…
In this bad faith action, Eastern District Judge Slomsky addressed three disputed discovery issues: (1) reserves; (2) claim adjuster work product; and (3) trade secrets.…
This case addresses a number of discovery issues in this first party benefit denial breach of contract and bad faith case. RESERVES (BAD FAITH ON…