Insurer's Claim Investigation Handling Was Not In Bad Faith, Panel Rules

(September 8, 2020, 11:46 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A federal district court did not err in granting summary judgment in an insurance bad faith lawsuit stemming from an automobile accident that caused the death of a claimant because no reasonable jury could determine that the insurer "unreasonably exposed its insured to a judgment in excess of his policy limits," an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Aug. 28 (Nya Yanitza Montanez v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co., No. 18-80788, 11th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 27449)....