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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.
A Florida court has ruled that a woman injured in an accident involving an uninsured/underinsured motor vehicle while she was a passenger in a rental vehicle driven by her sister could not recover under her sister's auto insurance policy.
The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a commercial general liability insurance policy issued to a truck stop and repair garage did not cover a claim alleging personal injuries from a tire being repaired.
An appellate court in Texas has overturned a trial court's judgment against an insurer after finding that a charge to the jury was improper, and has remanded for a new trial.
A federal district court in Pennsylvania has ruled that an auto exclusion in a law enforcement insurance policy issued to a city precluded coverage of a claim alleging that negligent or reckless driving by a city police officer had caused a fatal accident.
California's insurance commissioner, Ricardo Lara, will hold an investigatory hearing into how insurers' use of occupational, educational, and other groups for setting automobile insurance rates affects insurance premiums for lower-income Californians.
The Eighth Circuit has ruled that the made whole doctrine applied to property damage claims and rejected an insurer's subrogation action where it failed to demonstrate that its insureds had been made whole.
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