Williams v. Hartford Casualty Insurance

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• holding that a fifteen-month temporal lapse is not alone evidence of bad faith
• noting that reasonable minds could differ in quantifying claim for pain 16 and suffering, loss of life’s pleasures, and loss of consortium
• finding that delay of fifteen months did not constitute bad faith, given the uncertainty of the claim’s value
• holding no bad faith as a matter of law when “[a] large component of the [insured’s] claim involved pain and suffering, loss of life’s pleasures and loss of consortium, all of which reasonable minds could differ in quantifying”
• finding no bad faith when an insurer delayed its investigation of insured’s claim for fifteen months
• holding on summary judgment that 15-month delay not bad faith

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