Information Related To Auto Insurer’s Litigation Strategy Is Not Discoverable

(May 31, 2019, 11:37 AM EDT) -- TACOMA, Wash. — A Division II Washington Court of Appeals panel on May 29 reversed and remanded a trial court’s ruling that information related to an insurer’s decision to remove an insured’s suit to federal court is discoverable as evidence of the insurer’s alleged bad faith conduct because litigation strategy is “almost never discoverable” and the insured failed to meet the high bar for piercing the attorney-client privilege (Payton O. Hoff v. Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois, No. 50850-8-II, Wash. App., Div. 2, 2019 Wash. App. LEXIS 1337)....