Mealey's (July 8, 2020, 1:36 PM EDT) -- TAMPA, Fla. — An assignee’s bad faith claim alleged against an auto insurer cannot proceed because the assignee failed to prove that there was an excess judgment entered against the insured, a necessary prerequisite to a bad faith claim, a Florida federal judge said July 2 (Ambar Pratt v. Government Employees Insurance Co., No. 18-1607, M.D. Fla., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 116508)....