Breach Of Contract, Bad Faith Claims To Proceed Against Auto Insurer

Mealey's (March 1, 2019, 9:52 AM EST) -- FLORENCE, S.C. — Breach of contract and bad faith claims against an auto insurer can stand because the assignee of the insured sufficiently alleged facts in support of the claims; however, the negligence claims against the insurer must be dismissed because they are duplicative of the bad faith claim, a South Carolina federal judge said Feb. 26 (Annie Skinner, as assignee of Andrew Poston, v. Horace Mann Insurance Co., No. 18-922, D. S.C., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 29996)....