Insurance,
Torts/Personal Injury
Aug. 30, 2024
Recovering emotional distress damages for breach of an insurance contract
California case law establishes that, in some situations, insured individuals may be entitled to emotional distress damages for breach of an insurance contract without the burden of proving that the insurance company acted unreasonably or in "bad faith" when it denied benefits.
In 2022, while conducting research for an article about damages for breach of an insurance contract, I stumbled across the following comment in The Rutter Group Practice Guide for "Insurance Litigation": Certain cases "sug...
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