Panel: State Trial Court Properly Denied Summary Judgment In Bad Faith Suit

(September 7, 2017, 2:32 PM EDT) -- LAKE CHARLES, La. — In a split decision, a Louisiana appellate panel on Aug. 31 upheld a state court’s ruling that an insurer is not entitled to summary judgment on an insured’s bad faith claim, finding that the trial court failed to properly make a factual determination regarding the “reasonableness of the liability dispute” being argued (Trae Thibodeaux v. Steven Arvie Jr., et al., No. 17-625, La. App., 3rd Cir., 2017 La. App. LEXIS 15520)....

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