Bud McLaughlin v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company

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• finding that where there “were substantial disputes about material facts and inferences to be drawn from circumstantial evidence,” the denial of summary judgment on the plaintiff’s punitive damages claim was “not erroneous”
• “limiting instructions are taken very seriously in this Circuit as a tool for reducing or eliminating prejudice, and it has long been the law that juries are presumed to follow them.”
• “limiting instructions are taken very seriously in this Circuit as a tool for reducing or eliminating prejudice, and it has long been the law that juries are presumed to follow them.”
• approving the district court’s refusal to bifurcate breach of contract and tort claims
• A claim of bad faith \involves both questions of fact and mixed questions of law and fact and law.\

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