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Nov. 29, 2008

Injured Weight Lifter Awarded $11 Million in Bad Faith Case

A federal jury awarded $11.3 million to a quadriplegic man who claimed insurers of an exercise machine company acted in bad faith when they refused to settle an earlier suit over injuries caused by the machine.

By Noah Barron
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury awarded $11.3 million to a quadriplegic man who claimed insurers of an exercise machine company acted in bad faith when they refused to settle an earlier suit over injuries caused by the machine.

Harold Leon Bostick, 39, won a unanimous 9-0 verdict earlier this month against Atlantic Mutual, a New York-based insurance company that rejected Bostick's $1 million offer to the make...

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