9th Circuit Asked To Affirm Damages Calculation, Fee Award In Bad Faith Dispute

Mealey's (January 6, 2021, 1:45 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel should affirm a federal district court’s damages calculation and attorney fee award, as well as its denial of insureds’ second motion for summary judgment, in an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit stemming from an automobile insurance coverage dispute because although the insurer disagrees with the lower court’s findings, those rulings were supported by the lower court’s “factual conclusions and application of federal and state law,” the insurer argues in a Jan. 4 appellee brief filed in the Circuit Court....