Torts/Personal Injury,
Insurance
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.
Michael L. Cohen
Attorney, Michael L. Cohen
1910 West Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles , CA 90026
Phone: (310) 772-2346
Email: cohen@mlcplclaw.com
Harvard University Law School; Cambridge MA
Cohen is an attorney at Michael L. Cohen, A Professional Law Corporation and counsel at Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP in Los Angeles, California.
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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