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Assignment of Bad Faith Claims

Assignment of Bad Faith Claims

Connecticut

UP authored amicus in this important case of first impression supporting the rights of policyholders and their judgment creditors to recover a judgment in excess of the policy limits in contract actions against the insurance company for breach of the duty to defend, where the…

Allstate Property and Casualty Co. v. Jared Wolfe

Year: 2014

Court: Pennsylvania Supreme Court

Case Number: 39 MAP 2014

Issue:

Assignment of Bad Faith Claims
Public Policy and Tort Remedies

State:

Pennsylvania

On certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court confronted the issue of whether statutory bad faith claims may be assigned to an injured third party when the insured settles its claim and/or chooses not to pursue…