Settlement, GEICO

Divided Ninth Circuit Finds Claimant’s Failure to Provide Medical Records Insulates Insurer From Bad Faith Failure to Settle

Carlton Fields on 5/6/2025

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. An age-old adage that now provides critical guidance for insurers seeking to protect themselves in the face of bad faith failure to settle claims....more

Good Faith: Plaintiffs’ Complaints About Release Held Invalid

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP on 9/28/2021

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently addressed the issue of whether tendering a policy limits check on a liability policy with an overbroad release could constitute bad faith. In Pelaez v....more

Lack of Notice No Excuse for Failure to Settle

Cozen O'Connor on 6/1/2021

An insurer can no longer claim its lack of notice of a lawsuit against its insured excuses it for failing to settle the suit after the Georgia Supreme Court’s recent decision in GEICO Indemnity Co. v. Whiteside, Case No....more

When Evidentiary Error Matters: Eleventh Circuit Affirms Decision to Grant Retrial

Carlton Fields on 1/25/2019

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently closed the book on litigation in which GEICO had been involved since 2010, holding that the granting of a retrial—which resulted in a GEICO victory after an initial...more

To Fee Or Not To Fee, That Is The Question: The Florida Supreme Court Finds Coverage For Proposal For Settlement Sanctions In...

Butler Weihmuller Katz Craig LLP on 8/10/2017

To understand the implications of Macedo II, it is important to understand what brought us here. It’s a long and bumpy road, but understanding what brought us here will be critical in order to understanding how to go forward....more

Florida 4th DCA Reiterates Insurers Negligence Not Enough to Sustain Bad Faith Claim

Rumberger | Kirk on 1/18/2017

Directs Judgment to be Entered in Favor of Insurer - In GEICO v. Harvey, (Fla. 4th DCA Jan. 4, 2017), Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal held that the trial court erred in denying the insurer’s motion for directed...more

Typo Renders Proposal For Settlement Ambiguous - No Fees Awarded

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP on 3/26/2015

In GEICO v. Ryan, No. 4D13-2615 (Fla. 4th DCA, Mar. 11, 2015), the Court reversed the Trial Court's award of attorney's fees in favor of the insured because the "Proposal for Settlement contains a patent ambiguity--spelling...more

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