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Thursday, January 28, 2010
Bernall v. State Farm Mutual Insurance Company, Case No. 09CV410
Mike Rosenberg & Jeremy Sitcoff of the law firm Roberts Levin Rosenberg PC represented the Plaintiff in this action for bad faith breach of an automobile insurance contract stemming from a catastrophic car accident.
Upon completion of a 3-day jury trial in front of the Honorable Margie Enquist in Jefferson County, Colorado, the jury returned a verdict in favor of the Plaintiff for $502,475.44 finding that State Farm had breached its duty of good faith and fair dealing by acting unreasonably in failing to settle with the injured party for the policy limits.
The insured party had previously sent a 7-day policy limits demand which State Farm has allowed to expire. State Farm later offered its $100k policy limits in settlement but the injured party refused to take them, opting instead to pursue recovery of an excess judgment against State Farm’s insured.
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Labels: bad faith, First Party Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage
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