Case Study

Bad-faith litigation has long been a contentious — and big-dollar — issue for insurers.
A federal jury in Columbus, Ga., delivered a post-apportionment award of more than $2 million against Geico insurance in a bad-faith failure to settle a case stemming from an accident in which a bicyclist was struck by a motorist.
The insurer had been declared in default after the defendant driver — who had borrowed the Geico customer’s car and was driving on a suspended license — allegedly failed to tell the insurer she’d been sued.
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