Certain Claims Allowed To Proceed In Insurance Bad Faith Lawsuit

(April 14, 2020, 9:05 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A federal judge in Missouri on March 25 ruled that claimants in an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit sufficiently alleged a causal connection between their insured’s filing of a subrogation claim with another insured and their damages and are not collaterally estopped from asserting that the other insured’s payment to settle the subrogation claim negatively affected their damages claim against two tortfeasors (White Knight Diner LLC, et al. v. Owners Insurance Co. Inc., No. 17-2406, E.D. Mo., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51545)....