Supreme Court puts state farm case to rest

Late policyholder Curtis Campbell's 25-year-old bad-faith lawsuit against State Farm Insurance has reached its end, with the US Supreme Court denying an appeal by the nation's largest personal-lines insurer of an order by the Utah Supreme Court to pay $9 million in punitive damages. The Ca...

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Published in:Best's Review 2004-11, Vol.105 (7), p.14
Main Author: Lehman, R.J
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Automobile insurance
Bad faith (Law)
Breach of contract
Campbell, Curtis
Cancer
Insurance industry
Litigation
Punitive damages
Settlements & damages
State court decisions
Supreme Court decisions
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Summary:Late policyholder Curtis Campbell's 25-year-old bad-faith lawsuit against State Farm Insurance has reached its end, with the US Supreme Court denying an appeal by the nation's largest personal-lines insurer of an order by the Utah Supreme Court to pay $9 million in punitive damages. The Campbell case already had been the subject of an April 2003 Supreme Court decision.
ISSN:1527-5914
2161-282X