After a food company’s frozen ground beef was ordered recalled by the Department of Agriculture [USDA], the food company made a claim under its Contamination Products Insurance policy issued by defendant insurers. Coverage was denied on various grounds, and the food company sued for breach of contract and bad faith. Finding no triable issues of […]
Read The Policy.
The intoxicated driver who caused the accident which killed a man had insurance coverage of $15,000. The intoxicated driver’s employer had $250,000 coverage. The decedent’s widow collected that $265,000 in a settlement. Thereafter, the widow sought to collect $100,000 in underinsured motorist coverage under a motorcycle insurance policy issued to the decedent and the widow. […]
Appellate Court Found Insurer Not In Bad Faith.
A Cadillac involved in an accident, which resulted in severe injuries to a plaintiff, was insured under two different policies and under two different named insureds. When plaintiff’s lawyer made a demand, it was against a person who was not in the car and under the wrong policy, a policy which had been canceled six […]
Insured May Proceed With Bad Faith Action Against His Own Insurer.
Plaintiff was injured by an uninsured motorist, and made a claim under his $250,000 uninsured motorist coverage. His insurer demanded arbitration. After an arbitrator awarded plaintiff $164,120.91, plaintiff filed a complaint against his insurance company for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing by forcing him to arbitrate his claim without fairly […]