Judge Finds Bad Faith Claim Insufficient In Auto Insurance Dispute

Mealey's (April 13, 2017, 10:46 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — An insured has failed to plead whether his insurance bad faith claim is a common-law contract law claim or a statutory claim, a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled April 10 in dismissing the bad faith claim with leave to amend (Jeremy Z. Mittman v. Nationwide Affinity Insurance Co., No. 16-04658, E.D. Pa., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 54220)....