Triable Issue of Fact Exists As to An Insurer’s Failure to Settle Where Subrogation Demand Letter Represented an Opportunity to Settle Within Policy Limits

In Planet Bingo LLC v. The Burlington Ins. Co. (No. E074759, filed 3/18/2021, ord. certified for partial pub.), the Court of Appeal found a triable issue of fact existed as to whether a carrier is liable for bad faith failure to settle after it failed to respond to a subrogation demand letter....
By: Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

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