{"id":555,"date":"2018-01-29T23:44:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T23:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2019-11-14T00:39:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T00:39:36","slug":"defense-verdict-on-insurance-bad-faith-claim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/?p=555","title":{"rendered":"Defense verdict in bad faith lawsuit against insurer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attorneys Bob Baker and Derrick Lowe, representing a large automotive insurance company and an insurance brokerage, successfully defended a bad faith claim asserted by a plaintiff in response to the rescission of his automobile insurance policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a week-long bench trial in Palm Springs, the judge agreed with our clients&#8217; position that the plaintiff made several material misrepresentations during his application for insurance &#8211; including a failure to disclose the business use of his vehicle and lying about the garaging location of his vehicle &#8211; and concluded that our client had the absolute right to rescind the policy in view of these misrepresentations. Accordingly, the judge dismissed plaintiff&#8217;s claims that the insurance contract had been breached and that there had been any bad faith on the part of our clients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorneys Bob Baker and Derrick Lowe, representing a large automotive insurance company and an insurance brokerage, successfully defended a bad faith claim asserted by a plaintiff in response to the rescission of his automobile insurance policy. In a week-long bench trial in Palm Springs, the judge agreed with our clients&#8217; position that the plaintiff made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":945,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bknlawyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}