Bad Faith Law
 
United States of America v. Tawhnee Willow Colvin

Spokane, Washington criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Twenty-Five Counts of Bank Fraud and Embezzlement

Federal Jury Convicts Former Assistant Director of Spokane Tribe’s Division of Child and Family Services of Twenty-Five Counts of Bank Fraud and Embezzlement

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John's Bay POA, Inc. v. Steadfast Insurance Company

Florence, South Carolina, insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

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Ian Miller v. Spencer Jackson and Sean Roycroft

Boston, Massachusetts, personal injury lawyers represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights wrongful death excessive force case.

Robert Miller died during a run-in with Barnstable
police officers Sean Roycroft and Spencer Jackson at his Cape Cod
home in 2019. He was 63. A big question is how this happened.

The parties (whose names appear in our caption) give differing

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Matthew Humphrey v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

Tulsa, Oklahoma, insurance defense lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

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United States of America v. Zhao Tai Cui

Chicago, Illinois criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Immigration Fraud

Chicago Man Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison for Immigration Fraud




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United States of America v. Daniel Lee Hicks

Houston, Texas criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with two counts of production of child pornography and one count of coercion and enticement of a minor

Online child predator sentenced to 25 years


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Malcolm Wiener v. AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company

Charlotte, North Carolina insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith beach of insurance contract theory.

Malcolm Wiener purchased $16 million in permanent life insurance 1 from AXA
Equitable Life Insurance in the 1980s. All was uneventful until 2013, when Wiener failed
to pay premiums on time and his policy lapsed. 2 Seeking to reinstate his policy, he<

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Noreen Cady and Deane Cady v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

Missoula, Montana personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

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April Malick, et al. v. Croswell-Lexington District Schools, et al.

Detroit, Michigan personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a civil rights violation theory.

C.M. suffered student-on-student racial harassment while she attended the sixth, seventh,
and ninth grades in the Croswell-Lexington Community Schools District. (She was
homeschooled for eighth grade.) She was mocked, called the n-word and other racial slurs,
threate

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Terry Vanover v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company, et al.

Beckley, West Virginia insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a bad faith breach of contract theory.

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Steven Bernitz v. USABLE Life, et al.

Boston, Massachusetts insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a bad faith of breach of contract claim.

Steven Bernitz ("Bernitz") was Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Synta Pharmaceuticals ("Synta"). Bernitz has a long history of back problems, and in June 2014, he stopped working due to chronic back pain. For years thereafter, he received disability benefits un

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Kelly Flannery v. Peco Foods, Inc.

Little Rock, Arkansas employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a wrongful termination theory.

A urine-screening test revealed that Flannery had THC, the active ingredient
of marijuana, in his system. He blamed a CBD oil he used for back pain. The
company fired him, even though he claimed that his THC level was below the
threshold listed in the employee manua

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United States of America v. Mahamud Tooxoow Mahamed

Joplin, Missouri criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Kidnapping Resulting in Death

Former Noel Man Pleads Guilty to Kidnapping Resulting in Death





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Song-Dae Kim Lee v. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company

Baton Rouge, Louisiana insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract.

Louisiana bad faith insurance law requires insurers to handle claims fairly and promptly, imposing penalties on those who act "arbitrarily, capriciously, or without probable cause" in adjusting or paying claims
. If an insurer fails to pay a valid c

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Pharren Perkins v. Primerica Life Insurance Company

New Orleans, Louisiana insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

In Louisiana, an insurer acts in "bad faith" by violating a duty of good faith and fair dealing owed to the insured, primarily under

La. R.S. 22:1892. This statute requires insurers to pay claims within 30 days of receiving satisfactory proof of loss,

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United States of America v. Carl Rose

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with drug and firearm offenses.

In 2011, a jury sitting in the Eastern District of
Pennsylvania convicted Carl Rose of federal drug and firearm
offenses. The District Court sentenced Rose to 120 months’
imprisonment, followed by a five-year term of supervised
release. But about two years

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Henry R. Seawell, III and Kathryn D. Seawell v. Colonial Life & Accident Insurance Company

Mobile, Alabama insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on bad faith breach of insurance contract theories.

In 2002, the Seawells purchased a supplemental cancer insurance policy from Colonial.1 The policy is intended to
supplement traditional health insurance policies and cover additional costs of cancer treatment.

The parties contest the meaning of the par

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Jacob Donahoe v. Esurance Insurance Services, Inc., et al.

Omaha, Nebraska, insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued on a bad faith breach of contract.

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Lilah Moss v. Country Financial d/b/a Country Preferred Insurance Company

Anchorage, Alaska insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theory.

This case was initially filed in the State of Alaska, Third Judicial District, 3AN-25-04081, and was removed to federal court by the Defendant.

In Alaska, insurance bad faith occurs when an insurer unreasonably denies or delays payment of a valid claim

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Jedediah Valdez and Sara Valdez v. Travelers Home and Marine Insurance Company

Spokane, Washington insurance law lawyers represented the Plaintiffs who sued the Defendant on a bad faith breach of insurance contract theories.

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In Washington, bad faith breach of contract law generally refers to an insurer's unreasonable or unethical handling of an insurance claim, which goes beyond a simple breach of contract. It involves the insurer knowingly or reckles

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Ronda G. Williams v. USAA Life Insurance Company

Boise, Idaho insurance law lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a bad faith breach of contract theory.

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United States of America v. Devante Glenn

Cleveland, Ohio criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with selling
drugs that led to an overdose death, appeals his conviction on two counts of distributing
carfentanil, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) and (b)(1)(C), and one count of using a
telecommunications device to facilitate the transaction, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 843(b).

On July 19, 201

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United States of America v. Jonathan Pavlik, Vincent Jacobson, Kyle Dierick, Michael Babic, Timothy Ross

Juneau, Alaska criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendants charged with illegal illegally harvesting halibut

Five commercial fishermen charged in illegal halibut fishing conspiracy




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United States of America v. Mark Lorenzo Villanueva

Los Angeles, California criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization

Long Beach Man Arrested on Federal Criminal Complaint Charging Him with Sending a Dozen Payments to Suspected ISIS Terrorists

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United States of America v. Keith Rodney Moore

Richmond, Virginia criminal defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with illegal possession of a firearm.

When Richmond, Virginia, police officers observed a vehicle with the temporary license tag number 11134Y, they concluded that it was a fake tag because, within the preceding hours, they had stopped two other vehicles with the identical temporary tag number. The officers activ

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