Legal Opinion
Knotts v. Zurich Insurance Co.
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided May 18, 2006No. 2004-SC-0400-DGPublishedCited by 66 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROACH, Justice.
I. Introduction
Appellant, Lloyd Knotts, was seriously injured in a construction accident while performing construction work under a contract for a company. He initiated a claim with the company’s insurer and later filed *514a personal injury action against the company. He subsequently filed a bad-faith suit against the company’s insurer for violations of Kentucky’s Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act (UCSPA). The suit included allegations of violations that occurred after the filing of his personal injury action. The lower courts rejected Knotts’s bad faith claim on grounds that…
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- Palmer v. Farmers Insurance ExchangeMontana Supreme Court · 1993
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