Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. v. Lake County Park & Recreation Board

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• relying on California’s Aetna decision to reject exception to privilege in bad-faith cases
• relying on Aetna to reject exception to privilege in bad-faith cases
• “Simply put, Hartford retained counsel to investigate [its insured’s] claim, render legal advice and make a coverage determination under the policy”
• “A simple assertion that an insured cannot otherwise prove a case of bad faith does not automatically permit an insured to rummage through the insurers’ claims file.”
• “To permit [a party] access to the documents simply because it asserted a bad faith claim . . . would ignore the basic premise of protecting the attorney-client privilege.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).