Iowa Physicians' Clinic Medical Foundation v. Physicians Insurance

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff in this case, the Iowa Physicians’ Clinic Medical Foundation, which does business under the name Iowa Health Physicians (IHP), asks us to predict that the Illinois Supreme Court, if confronted with the issue, would hold that the tort of bad faith in refusing to settle a claim at or within the policy limits of a medical malpractice insurance policy extends to a no-ninsured under the policy. Because we think it is doubtful that the Illinois high court would go that far, we reject IHP’s appeal and affirm the district court judgment dismissing its complaint.

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