Year:
2015
Court:
Louisiana Supreme Court
Case Number:
2014-CQ-1921
Issue:
- Conduct During Settlement Negotiations
- Duty of good faith and fair dealing
State:
- Louisiana
On certified question from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, the Louisiana Supreme Court was confronted with the issue of whether an insurer can be liable for statutory bad faith for failure to settle a claim when it never received a firm…