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[Event] Insurance Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability Seminar - June 12th - 14th, Nashville, TN

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​​​​​​​DRI’s Insurance Bad Faith and Extra-Contractual Liability Seminar is the preeminent program for insurance executives, claims professionals, and outside counsel who specialize in bad faith insurance litigation. When bad...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Confirms that the Two-Year Statute of Limitations in a Bad Faith UM/UIM Claim Begins when the Insured Should Have...

In an issue of first impression, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Allstate and held that the two-year statute of limitations for bad faith claims arising out of an uninsured/underinsured...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Summary Judgment for Allstate in Bad Faith Claim

In an issue of first impression, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for Allstate and held that the two-year statute of limitations for bad faith claims arising out of an uninsured/underinsured...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Eleventh Circuit Reverses its Prior Reasoning Finding: Settlement Agreements can now be Basis for a Bad Faith Claim

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In Florida, an excess judgment is when the judgment in the case exceeds the policy limits. The excess judgment rule requires an injured plaintiff to obtain an excess judgment before prosecuting a bad faith claim against an...more

Saul Ewing LLP

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Split Ends 24-Year Insurance Bad Faith Battle

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On August 25, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court split 3-3, with one Justice recused, on an appeal from a trial court’s insurance bad faith decision imposing $18 million in punitive damages and $3 million in attorney’s fees...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Insurers Beware: One Insurer’s Settlement Can Support a Bad Faith Failure-to-Settle Claim Against a Nonsettling Insurer

An insurer defending a claim against an insured that could exceed policy limits has a good faith obligation to settle the claim if possible. Failure to do so puts a nonsettling insurer at grave risk. An Eleventh Circuit...more

Cozen O'Connor

Montana: Settlement Without Defending Insurer Is Not Presumptively Reasonable

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In Draggin' Y Cattle Co., Inc. v. Junkermier, Clark, Campanella, Stevens, P.C., --- P.3d ---, 2019 MT 97 (Mont. 2019), the Montana Supreme Court held that where an insurer is defending, a settlement by the insured and the...more

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