Trial Court Properly Dismissed Bad Faith Claim Against Auto Insurer

(December 2, 2019, 9:07 AM EST) -- PHOENIX — A trial court did not err in dismissing a bad faith claim alleged against an auto insurer by the trustee of two insureds’ bankruptcy estates because the insureds’ decision to file for bankruptcy extinguished any potential third-party bad faith claim for failing to settle against the auto insurer, the Arizona Court of Appeals said Nov. 21 (Lawrence Warfield, et al. v. The Ledbetter Law Firm PLC, et al., No. 1 CA-CV 18-0636, Ariz. App., Div. 1, 2019 Ariz. App. Unpub. LEXIS 1277)....

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