An insurer sued its appointed defense counsel in connection with counsel’s defense of a UIM claim. The insurer claimed that counsel failed to assure that…
Month: February 2017
Judge Conti granted in part and denied the insurer’s summary judgment motion on the insured’s bad faith allegations. The insured’s claims rested on two arguments:…
The district court refused to remand a declaratory judgment coverage action, principally because there was also a bad faith claim in the case. The court…
Plaintiffs failed to plead an adequate bad faith complaint under Twombly/Iqbal, but were given leave to amend. Among the averments that did not meet muster…
This case involved an alleged material misrepresentation in a health insurance policy application. The court found that the insurer did not have to seek rescission…
The New Jersey federal court had to apply the “reasonably debatable” standard to the bad faith denial claim in this matter. The insured had two…
A default was taken against the insured, who hired his own counsel to defend the matter, without notice to the insurer. The court found this…
In this case, the insured bad faith plaintiff pleads conclusory language taken from case law and the Unfair Insurance Practices Act, all of which failed…
The insureds move to remand this New Jersey federal action back to Superior Court. The insureds argued at one point that the insurer defendants, “anticipating…