Insurance Bad Faith, Breach Of Contract Claims Found To Be Unripe

(August 3, 2018, 11:09 AM EDT) -- DENVER — A federal judge in Colorado on July 31 ruled that claimants’ third-party claim for bad faith against a trucking company’s insurer are unripe and are, therefore, not fit for review until an underlying state court action has been adjudicated because the claimants’ “injury cannot be known and their bad faith failure to settle claim, in turn, cannot accrue until the [insurer’s] appeal in the Underlying Action ‘either establishes [the excess] exposure or dissolves any liability’” (Timothy Kuzava v. United Fire & Casualty Co., No. 17-02673, D. Colo., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 127871)....

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