{"id":3824,"date":"2015-04-29T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T15:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2020-09-23T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T22:44:51","slug":"superior-court-of-pennsylvania-finds-trial-court-erred-in-bad-faith-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/superior-court-of-pennsylvania-finds-trial-court-erred-in-bad-faith-claim\/","title":{"rendered":"Superior Court of Pennsylvania Finds Trial Court Erred in Bad Faith Claim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court of Pennsylvania found that the court erred in a bad faith claim in <em>Mohney v. American General<\/em> (2030 &amp; 2046 WDA 2013). The Court reasoned that the insurer acted in bad faith by having no reasonable basis for terminating the plaintiff\u2019s benefits.<\/p>\n<p>Mohney purchased life insurance from U.S. Life (now succeeded and represented by American General) in October 1991 and September 1992. A year later, the plaintiff suffered an injury as a result of a traffic accident preventing him from returning to work. U.S. Life found Mohney to be totally disabled under the definition of their policy and disbursed insurance benefits on a monthly in basis. In February 1995 U.S. Life suddenly terminated Mohney\u2019s benefits alleging that Mohney no longer met \u201cthe covered criteria for total disability as stated in [his] certificates\u201d and was \u201cable to perform regular duties of an occupation for which [he was] qualified\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The plaintiff immediately initiated civil action against the defendant, and in June 1997 filed a complaint for fraud, breach of contract, violation of the Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law (\u201cUTPCPL\u201d), and insurance bad faith. During the following four years, U.S. Life\u2019s objections were granted by the court. In 2001, U.S. Life filed a motion for summary judgement which was granted in part with the exception of Mohney\u2019s breach of contract claim. The trial court found Mohney to be \u201ctotally disabled under the terms of the insurance contract\u201d and awarded the plaintiff $20,772.58. Upon appeal the Superior Court affirmed the trial court\u2019s breach of contract judgement, but remanded for a trail on the bad faith matter. In October 2013 the trial court ruled in favor of U.S. Life prompting Mohney to appeal the bad faith ruling which is the central consideration of the present memorandum.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/superior-court-of-pennsylvania-finds-trial-court-erred-in-bad-faith-claim\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Superior Court of Pennsylvania Finds Trial Court Erred in Bad Faith Claim\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Superior Court of Pennsylvania found that the court erred in a bad faith claim in Mohney v. American General (2030 &amp; 2046 WDA 2013). The Court reasoned that the insurer acted in bad faith by having no reasonable basis for terminating the plaintiff\u2019s benefits. Mohney purchased life insurance from U.S. Life (now succeeded and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[501,415],"tags":[327],"coauthors":[512],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insurance-bad-faith","category-miscellaneous","tag-pennsylvania","miscellaneous_lawyer-kang-haggerty-fetbroyt-llc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Superior Court of PA Finds Trial Court Erred in Bad Faith Claim<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Superior Court of Pennsylvania found that the court erred in a bad faith claim in Mohney v. 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