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A Pennsylvania state court has found Nationwide Insurance Co. engaged in bad faith in handling its insured\u2019s first party auto insurance claim and in its litigation tactics when the dispute led to a lawsuit.\u00a0 The court\u2019s forty page opinion catalogues the types of specific conduct that evidences bad faith in violation of Pennsylvania Insurance Bad Faith Statute ( 42 Pa. C. S. A. \u00a7 8371), which warrants an imposition of punitive damages to deter insurers from engaging in such conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A Pennsylvania state court has found Nationwide Insurance Co. engaged in bad faith in handling its insured\u2019s first party auto insurance claim and in its litigation tactics when the dispute led to a lawsuit.\u00a0 The court\u2019s forty page opinion catalogues the types of specific conduct that evidences bad faith in violation of Pennsylvania Insurance Bad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[501,415],"tags":[327,98],"coauthors":[512],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insurance-bad-faith","category-miscellaneous","tag-pennsylvania","tag-punitive-damage","miscellaneous_lawyer-kang-haggerty-fetbroyt-llc"],"yoast_head":"\nInsurance Bad Faith Practice leads to $18 million Punitive Damage Award — Kang 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