Safeco Insurance v. Fridman

This court today has declared void a jury verdict rendered in an uninsured motorist (UM) case brought against Safeco Insurance Company of Illinois because it refused to timely pay the uninsured motorist benefits under the policy it issued to the injured insured, Adrian Fridman. That verdict declares the full measure of the damages suffered by Fridman to be $1,000,000. In reaching its decision, the majority erroneously concluded that Frid-man did not have a pending bad faith claim and if he did, he should have pled it in the complaint filed in the UM case. Because he did not, the majority…