(January 25, 2018, 12:21 PM EST) -- BATON ROUGE, La. — A third-party claimant who was assigned an insured’s rights to pursue damages against an insurer has standing to maintain claims against the insurer for allegedly failing to act in good faith in defending its insured in an underlying suit arising out of an auto accident, a Louisiana federal judge said Jan. 22 (Brian Richard, et al. v. USAA Casualty Insurance Co., No. 17-175, M.D. La., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9676)....