I have been thinking more and more about the tactical questions raised by the recent $90 million bad faith judgment under Massachusetts Chapter 93A against Liberty Mutual, which I discussed here. By sheer good timing, it was issued just as I was leaving to attend a major insurance coverage conference and also just before
For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death
About 24 years ago I won a trial on behalf of Liberty Mutual in an insurance bad faith action in which plaintiff’s counsel sought to multiply an underlying multimillion dollar judgment against the insured based on an alleged bad faith failure by the insurer to settle the tort claim. At the time, it represented –