Cartwright v. Town of Plymouth

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• stating that under Pennsylvania law the right of an insured to recover from an insurer for bad faith conduct is a statutory cause of action sounding in tort in the nature of a penalty, the gravamen of the statute is the right of the insured to obtain punitive damages

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