INSURANCE: “Each Person” limit covers direct damages for daughter’s physical injury and derivative damages for loss of father in MVA up to $50,000 under policy language, $100,000 [Read more…]
Insurance, fees, 3rd-party common law bad faith
INSURANCE: Fees/costs incurred in settling claim not allowable as 3rd-party common law bad faith damages, $66,666.67 fees verdict reversed, voiding basis for $350,000 punitives… Claimant properly allowed to introduce testimony on industry practices as to advancing wages, insurer’s proposed instruction as to liability for refusing to advance [Read more…]
Insurance, derivative death/survivorship claims
INSURANCE: Daughter’s wrongful death/survivorship claims derivative from father’s auto death, limited by his “each person” limit regardless of whether she sustained her own bodily injury… claims for mental impairment resulting from loss of father must be separately supported in underlying case… H. Brown. [Read more…]