Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bad faith insurance refers to an insurer’s attempt to renege on its obligations to its ...

Insurance bad faith lawsuit recoveries can be significant, dwarfing the underlying dispute. By definition, a bad faith case comes out of an underlying dispute or accident. That duality can make the ...

This article was originally published by Cla i ms Journal on June 16, 2025 and is republished here with permission from the publication. Bad faith litigation has long posed both legal and reputational ...

Dealing with an insurance company after a car accident can be a real pain. Having to talk to an investigator (after you've already spoken with the police), wait months for a determination, and ...

The insurance relationship is contractual, but when policyholders claim insurers failed to honor their obligations, they typically invoke the tort of "bad faith." In these contexts, the possibility of ...

The recent wildfires in Southern California and natural disasters elsewhere in the country have left thousands of people grappling with enormous loss — and the complex insurance claims process that ...

If you follow reporting from 60 Minutes or NPR, you've likely noticed we're facing a national crisis in home insurance and bad faith actors in the insurance industry, with Florida as the epicenter of ...

A Florida bar brawl that left a woman fatally shot has become a multimillion-dollar liability dispute with potential ripple effects nationwide on how carriers handle claims when catastrophic losses ...