Panel Says Question Of Fact Remains On Insurer’s Handling Of Workers’ Compensation Claim

Mealey's (March 7, 2018, 1:32 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A district court erred in granting a workers’ compensation insurer’s motion for summary judgment on a bad faith claim as it pertained to the insurer’s denial of a claim after learning that the claim was possibly related to the claimant’s original workers’ compensation claim because a rational jury could find that the continued denial was evidence of bad faith claims handling, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 5 (David Clark v. Indemnity Insurance Company of North America, et al., No. 16-16880, 9th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 5581)....