Judge: Jury Instructions Not Needed To Properly State Law In Bad Faith Suit

Mealey's (March 21, 2017, 8:56 AM EDT) -- ATLANTA — A federal district court did not abuse its discretion in denying a third party’s proposed jury instructions in an insurance bad faith lawsuit because the proposed instructions were not necessary “to correctly state the law,” an 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled March 17 in affirming (Douglas Stalley v. Allstate Insurance Co., et al., No. 16-14816, 11th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 4734)....