Bad Faith Claim To Proceed Against Employer’s Commercial Auto Insurer, Judge Says

Mealey's (September 19, 2019, 12:42 PM EDT) -- SALT LAKE CITY — A bad faith claim alleged against an employee’s commercial auto insurer can proceed because the employee’s claim qualifies as a first-party bad faith claim and not a third-party bad faith claim, a Utah federal judge said Sept. 16 after determining that the insurer agreed to pay claims submitted to it for the employee’s losses (Timothy Marc v. Traveler Commercial Insurance Co. et al., No. 17-1193, D. Utah, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159055)....