The Travelers Indemnity Company v. Johnson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA HAMMOND DIVISION THE TRAVELERS INDEMNITY ) COMPANY, ) ) Plaintiff, ) ) Cause No. 4:17-CV-86-PPS v. ) ) BRITTANY M. JOHNSON, ) ) Defendant. OPINION AND ORDER This case was reassigned to me from Judge Springmann a couple months ago. It’s been in the system far too long. The gist of the case is that Brittany Johnson believes that Travelers Insurance Company botched its handling of a state law case that led to a verdict in excess of policy limits. She alleges that Travelers engaged in bad faith in the way it handled the underlying state…