Cynthia Dyches Linthicum v. Mendakota Insurance Company

Cynthia and Christopher Linthicum appeal the summary judgment in favor of Mendakota Insurance Company, which issued an automobile liability insurance policy to Bobby James Hopkins II that was in effect when he struck and killed the Lin-thicums’ 11-year-old son. The Linthicums, as Hopkins’s assignees, sued Mendakota Insurance for its alleged bad faith in failing to accept a time-limited offer to settle their wrongful death claim for the limits of Hopkins’s insurance policy. The district court ruled that Mendakota Insurance did not act in bad faith because the offer left unresolved a potential…