O'Neill v. Gallant Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the insurer ignored recommendations to set- tle from the claim’s adjuster, his supervisor, and a claims director
• finding that defense counsel had estimated to the insurer that the verdict would likely be much higher than the policy amount
• upholding punitive damage award of 10% of the defendant's net worth for a breach of fiduciary duty
• upholding punitive damage award of 10% of the defendant’s net worth for a breach of fiduciary duty
• upholding the potential chose in action for insurer’s failure to settle claims within the policy limits in bad faith
• affirming jury verdict finding insurer acted in bad faith where the odds of a jury rejecting the plaintiff’s claim “were astronomical” and defense counsel knew the jury verdict would exceed coverage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).