Cindy Keefe v. Prudential Property and Casualty Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a case subject to a “high- low settlement agreement” was not moot
• holding that “in order to recover under a bad faith claim, a plaintiff must show (1) that the defendant did not have a reasonable basis for denying benefits under the policy; and (2
• noting an insurer is not required to pay a partial settlement absent a request from the insured
• same, where parties remained \truly adverse with respect to the critical legal issue that they ask us to resolve\ and review of private settlement agreement demonstrated \significant stake in the outcome\
• “[T]here is no common law remedy for bad faith in the handling of insurance claims under Pennsylvania law[.]”
• parties’ settlement agreement, pursuant to which settlement amount was contingent on outcome of issue on appeal, did not moot the controversy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).