The carrier denied the insured homeowners’ property damage claim. They sued for breach of contract and bad faith, and the carrier moved to dismiss. First,…
Category: PA – No coverage due, bad faith still possible
The insurer denied auto theft coverage based on an exclusion. The insured sued for breach of contract and bad faith, and also alleged breach of…
This is a rare bad faith case raised before a Bankruptcy Court in the context of an adversary proceeding. The bankrupt/insureds brought a first party…
The insured brings this breach of contract and bad faith case based on the insurer’s denying virtually all of her water damage claim, and its…
These two Covid-19 coverage cases ended in summary judgments against the insureds on their breach of contract and statutory bad faith claims. Eastern District Judge…
The Third Circuit addressed the central issue of whether the defendant was an insured, and how to analyze that factual issue in ruling on coverage…
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 statutory bad faith opinion issued out of the Western District of Pennsylvania yesterday. The court finds no coverage based on a one-year suit limitation…
The insured failed to plead a plausible bad faith claim in this first party property loss case. We will address two things about this case. …
Anyone following this blog has been made aware, ad naseum, that courts are divided on whether statutory bad faith can exist where no benefit is…