The story in The Legal Intelligencer reported that the Court found that Erie attorneys Tim George and Tony Sciarrino had proven, by “clear and convincing evidence” that ACIC had acted in bad faith by:
* misrepresenting its policy limits;
* trying to coerce its insured into releasing her bad faith claim;
* refusing to arbitrate the dispute with its insured even though its own policy required arbitration;
* unreasonably and falsely threatening to appeal the arbitration award;
* unreasonably delaying settlement; and
* proposing unreasonably low settlement offers.
The story observed that our client’s “…bad faith claim…was so strong that it need not be tried [to a jury]…” “The result of the ruling,” the paper reported, “is that the only issue left to be decided is the damages to be paid to [Purchase, George & Murphey, P.C. client]…on her bad faith and breach of contract claims.” We can’t reproduce the entire story here (because it’s copyrighted) but you can find the opinion itself in our articles library HERE .
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