11th Circuit Set To Hear Bad Faith Claims Against GEICO In Accident Case

(August 29, 2016, 2:59 PM EDT) -- ATLANTA — The 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has been asked to determine whether a federal judge erred in granting GEICO General Insurance Co. summary judgment in a case in which it offered to pay $14,104 to an accident victim who brought a bad faith action against the insurer for failing to pay the full uninsured motorist (UM) benefit in her insurance policy (Ethel Cousin v. GEICO General Insurance Co., No. 16-10113, 11th Cir.)....