(December 3, 2020, 5:25 PM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — An auto insurer and a law firm hired by the insurer to defend an insured in an underlying personal injury action did not act in “gross disregard” of an insured’s interests, the Second Department Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court said Dec. 2 in affirming a trial court’s dismissal of the insured’s bad faith suit (William E. Waters. et al. v. Geico Insurance Agency Inc., et al., No. 2018-0405, N.Y. Sup., App. Div., 2nd Dept., 2020 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7357)....