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Geico hit with $2M post-apportion award in bad faith suit

Is an insurance company really liable for bad-faith when it alleges that it had no notice of a claim? See what one Georgia jury decided.

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Geico Insurance office (Photo: : Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock.com)

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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