Questions Of Fact Preclude Summary Judgment For Life Insurer In Bad Faith Suit

(June 19, 2020, 11:03 AM EDT) -- SAN ANTONIIO — A life insurer is not entitled to summary judgment on a beneficiary’s claims for breach of contract and bad faith because the insured’s misrepresentation was not material and because questions of fact exist as to whether the life insurer knew of the insured’s condition and whether the life insurer deviated from its standard procedures in issuing the policy, a Texas federal judge said June 5 (Deborah Thomas v. Government Personnel Mutual Life Insurance Co., No. 18-1153, W.D. Texas, 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 98935)....