New York Majority: Fact Question Exists As To Whether Insurers Acted In Bad Faith

(October 26, 2018, 1:09 PM EDT) -- ALBANY, N.Y. — A majority of a New York appeals court on Oct. 25 held that there is a question of fact regarding whether a doctor’s primary and excess insurers acted in bad faith in failing to settle an underlying medical malpractice lawsuit, reversing and remanding a lower court’s ruling in favor of the insurers and reinstating the bad faith claim against them (Healthcare Professionals Insurance Company v. Michael A. Parentis et al., No. n/a, N.Y. Sup., App. Div., 2018 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7187)....