Insurer Failed To Prove $4M Settlement In Wrongful Death Suit Was Unreasonable

(March 8, 2018, 9:04 AM EST) -- MIAMI — An insurer is not entitled to summary judgment on a bad faith claim alleged against the insurer by the personal representative of a decedent who was killed while a passenger in the insured’s vehicle because the insurer failed to prove that a $4 million settlement entered into between the decedent’s representative and the insured’s representative in an underlying wrongful death suit was unreasonable, a Florida federal judge said Feb. 28 (Markiva Beaubrun v. GEICO General Insurance Co., No. 16-24205, S.D. Fla., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 32377)....