I’ve been reading Jay Feinman’s excellent book, Delay Deny Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It. The book deals with the games insurance companies play in claims handling, especially in the personal lines arena. At one point, Feinman quotes from a great movie I haven’t seen in
June 2011
Bad faith law in New Jersey
By Gene Killian on
Posted in Bad Faith
Got into a discussion recently with some of my policyholder counsel friends. They were lamenting the death of bad faith law in New Jersey. When a carrier unreasonably denies or delays paying a claim, the key case is supposed to be Pickett v. Lloyd’s, 131 N.J. 457 (1993), which was written by the late…