Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bad faith insurance refers to an insurer’s attempt to renege on its obligations to its ...

Some insurance payments are treated as tax-free by the IRS. For example, if you pay for car insurance and your insurance carrier later repairs your car after an accident, the amount of the repair bill ...

Dealing with an insurance company after a car accident can be a real pain. Having to talk to an investigator (after you've already spoken with the police), wait months for a determination, and ...

This article was originally published by Cla i ms Journal on June 16, 2025 and is republished here with permission from the publication. Bad faith litigation has long posed both legal and reputational ...

Insurance companies owe a duty of good faith and fair dealing with policyholders. Unfortunately, some carriers are notorious for using unfair, manipulative and deceptive practices to delay, deny or ...

The insurance relationship is contractual, but when policyholders claim insurers failed to honor their obligations, they typically invoke the tort of "bad faith." In these contexts, the possibility of ...

If you follow reporting from 60 Minutes or NPR, you've likely noticed we're facing a national crisis in home insurance and bad faith actors in the insurance industry, with Florida as the epicenter of ...

Fibich Leebron Copeland & Briggs reports that burn victims can challenge insurance claim denials through legal rights, ...

A jury in the Southern District of Florida determined State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company acted in bad faith by failing to settle a wrongful death claim. This jury verdict comes as the ...

A Florida bar brawl that left a woman fatally shot has become a multimillion-dollar liability dispute with potential ripple effects nationwide on how carriers handle claims when catastrophic losses ...

A federal appeals court ruled that a jury should decide whether Kinsale Insurance Co. acted in bad faith in a case involving a 2015 shooting at a St. Lucie County lodge. The lodge's insurer, Kinsale, ...

The recent wildfires in Southern California and natural disasters elsewhere in the country have left thousands of people grappling with enormous loss — and the complex insurance claims process that ...