Legal Opinion
Wilson v. 21st Century Insurance
California Supreme Court
Decided December 19, 2007No. S141790PublishedCited by 197 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
WERDEGAR, J.
In this first party insurance bad faith action, the question on review is whether summary judgment was properly granted for the insurer. Eight months after plaintiff Reagan Wilson was injured in an automobile accident by a drunk driver, her insurer, defendant 21st Century Insurance Company (21st Century), rejected her demand for payment of the $100,000 policy limit on her underinsured motorist coverage. Although Wilson’s treating physician had opined that the 21-year-old woman had “degenerative disk changes as a result of occult disk injury at the levels in her neck from…
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