Dennis Lee Kemp v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
1Per curiam
Dennis Kemp brought suit against USAA alleging that USAA acted in bad faith in representing their insured, Andrew Buckman. Andrew Buckman also sued USAA, and the two lawsuits were joined. The district court granted summary judgment to USAA, holding no reasonable jury could conclude that USAA acted in bad faith. Kemp and Buckman timely appealed.
“We review the district court’s grant of summary judgment de novo, applying the same legal standards as the district court.” Mesa v. Clarendon Nat’l Ins. Co., 799 F.3d 1353, 1358 (11th Cir. 2015). We “view the evidence in the light most favorable to the…
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