Failure To Plead Substantive Element Of Bad Faith Claim Leads To Dismissal

Mealey's (July 8, 2019, 12:57 PM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida in July 3 ruled that although plaintiffs in an insurance bad faith lawsuit stemming from an automobile accident have sufficiently shown that all conditions precedent “have occurred or been exhausted,” they have failed to properly plead the substantive element of their bad faith claim (Jacob D. Frantz, et al. v. Century-National Insurance Co., No. 19-969, M.D. Fla., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 111021)....