Mealey's (March 2, 2017, 2:47 PM EST) -- JACKSON, Miss. — Dismissal of a bad faith claim and request for punitive damages in an insurance breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit is proper because an insurer never denied an insured’s claim for uninsured motorist benefits, and there was no evidence that it acted in bad faith in disputing the claim, a federal judge in Mississippi ruled Feb. 27 in granting the insurer’s motion for partial summary judgment (Jacob Ladner v. GEICO Indemnity Co., No. 16-0197, S.D. Miss., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 27158)....