Federal Judge Rules That Bad Faith Claims Meet Removal Guidelines

Mealey's (January 31, 2017, 12:24 PM EST) -- PITTSBURGH — Remand of an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit is not proper because the parties are sufficiently diverse and the plaintiffs’ bad faith claim seeks damages in excess of the statutory limits, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Jan. 30 in denying the plaintiffs’ motion to remand and an insurer’s motion to dismiss (Deborah A. Marks, et al. v. Utica First Insurance Co., No. 16-1671, W.D. Pa., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 12096)....