Federal Insurance Company is the carrier issuing the policy. Federal is one of the Chubb Group of insurance companies. The insured sued Federal for breach…
Category: PA – Who is an Insurer?
On July 19th, Judge Stickman held in Stegena v. Nationwide, that simply pleading the insured’s injuries are worth significantly more than the carrier’s valuation of…
A homeowner filed counterclaims against his lender in a foreclosure action. The counterclaims included an insurance bad faith claim. The Superior Court affirmed the trial…
This case involved breach of contract and bad faith claims against the insurer based on its decision not to cover the alleged theft of jewelry.…
The court described this as the case of the missing email. The insurance policy at issue covered various cars. The insured emailed its broker to add…
This is Magistrate Judge Eddy’s Report and Recommendation on the issue of whether certain statutory bad faith defendants were insurers subject to the bad faith…
The insured failed to plead adequately on two levels in this case. First, the insured attempted to plead in the alternative that the defendant was…
The plaintiff obtained insurance against its tenants failing to pay rent. It allegedly entered a relationship with two entities licensed to provide that insurance. One…
A UIM insured brought a breach of contract, loss of consortium, and bad faith action against both the claim representative and the insurer. The insurer…
The excellent Tort Talk Blog has posted an opinion from Judge Nealon in Lackawanna County reiterating that the bad faith statute does not apply to insurance…