Dey v. State Farm Mutual Auto Ins. Co., No. 14-60300 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed suit against State Farm, seeking damages based on an uninsured motorist claim, bad-faith denial of the claim, and conversion. The district court granted summary judgment to State Farm and granted State Farm's motion to amend the judgment after a jury verdict on compensatory damages. The court concluded that plaintiff has not shown a genuine dispute of material fact that would have justified the denial of summary judgment on the claim of bad faith in refusing to offer payment of the policy limit on his claim; because State Farm has an arguable basis for the denial of plaintiff's claim for policy limits, the court need not consider whether the conduct was sufficiently egregious to rise to the level of an independent tort; and State Farm did not waive its argument that plaintiff's damages could not be more than that of the policy limit because it moved to have evidence of the policy limit excluded at trial. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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