Jury’s Punitive Damages Award Not Contrary To Law, New Mexico Panel Affirms

(June 24, 2019, 10:19 AM EDT) -- ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico Court of Appeals panel on May 23 affirmed a trial court’s denial of an auto insurer’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict after determining that the trial court did not err in allowing a jury’s punitive damages verdict to stand because the jury did, in fact, find that the auto insurer acted in bad faith in its handling of the insured’s auto claim (Claude Wilson v. Farmers Insurance Company of Arizona, No. A-1-CA-36300, N.M. App., 2019 N.M. App. Unpub. LEXIS 140)....

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