Judge Awards Insurer $1.1M In Attorney Fees In ‘Unmeritorious, Unjust’ Bad Faith Suit

Mealey's (April 3, 2018, 2:10 PM EDT) -- PHOENIX — An Arizona federal judge on March 30 awarded an insurer $1,099,011.50 in attorney fees, finding that an insured’s breach of contract, bad faith and negligence lawsuit was “unmeritorious and unjust at its core” and that failure to award the attorney fees “would work an injustice in the circumstances of this case” (11333 Inc. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, London, et al., No. 14-02001, D. Ariz., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54130)....