Claim For Extracontractual Damages In Collapse Coverage Suit Dismissed

Mealey's (January 31, 2019, 1:57 PM EST) -- UTICA, N.Y. — An insured’s claim for consequential and extracontractual damages must be dismissed because the insured failed to show that the insurer’s actions in its handling of a claim for a collapsed building amounted to bad faith, which is necessary to justify a claim for consequential and extracontractual damages, a New York federal judge said Jan. 30 (Russell Bryant v. General Casualty Company of Wisconsin, No. 18-562, N.D. N.Y., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14369)....