Law Practice
Jun. 13, 2009
Jury Finds Bad Faith By Insurer, Awards $6 Million to Victims
Proof discrimination was intended isn't needed, court says.
Daily Journal Staff Writer SANTA ANA - It only took a federal jury about an hour and a half of deliberations to decide that an insurance company should pay $6 million to a Laguna Beach couple for evading claims over shoddy construction of a new waterfront home. In a verdict handed down Tuesday afternoon following six days of trial, the jury found that Lincoln General Insurance Co. had acted in bad faith by not shouldering it...
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