Panel Revives Bad Faith, Punitive Damages Claims In Wildfire Coverage Suit

(May 27, 2020, 1:12 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California appeals panel on May 22 reversed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of a homeowners insurer on its insureds’ bad faith and punitive damages claims, finding that it cannot determine that it is undisputed that the insurer’s basis for denying the insureds’ supplemental wildfire damage claims was reasonable (Leonard Fadeeff, et al. v. State Farm General Insurance Co., No. A155691, Calif. App., 1st Dist., Div. 2, 2020 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 3192)....