Paulson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

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• holding that an insured could not state a breach of contract claim where the 18 insurer initially denied the uninsured motorist claim, but later paid the full amount of the 19 arbitration award
• holding plaintiff’s breach of contract claim was not viable 3 since the insurer paid the policy’s underinsured motorist limits
• holding an 16 insured’s breach of contract claim was “not viable” because the insurer “has paid [the insured] the limits of liability under his 17 policy”
• “The fact that State Farm changed its initial position and that the arbitrator subsequently found that State Farm owed Paulson the limit of his policy does not imply that State Farm acted in bad faith in the first instance.”
• “The fact that State Farm changed its initial 13 position and that the arbitrator subsequently found that State Farm owed Paulson the limit 14 of his policy does not imply that State Farm acted in bad faith in the first instance.”

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