Insurer’s Violation Was ‘Willful Or Knowing,’ Panel Says In Partial Reversal

(April 6, 2020, 10:21 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts appellate panel on April 2 held that an insurer’s unfair insurance settlement practices involving an underlying negligence lawsuit arising from a bar fight was “willful or knowing,” partially reversing a lower court and remanding for it to determine whether the amount of the judgment on all claims arising out of the present lawsuit and the underlying occurrence should be doubled or tripled pursuant to state law (Robert Chiulli vs. Liberty Mutual Insurance, Inc., No. No. 18-P-1288, Mass. App., 2020 Mass. App. LEXIS 32)....