Gavel with money Bad faith awards can cost insurance companies millions of dollars in addition to actual damages.

An appellate court in California has rejected an appeal by GEICO General Insurance Company from a judgment awarding $1 million in punitive damages for Geico's bad faith breach of an insurance contract.

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