Citing Walbrook News Today

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In a unanimous opinion which will impact the plaintiff bar’s strategies for “setting up” liability insurers for “failure to settle” bad faith claims, a California appeals court held in Pinto v. Farmers Ins. Exchange (No. B295742, filed 3/8/21) that a bad faith failure to settle claim requires a finding that the insurer acted unreasonably in some respect. Because the jury verdicts proposed by the plaintiff did not require t...