Legal Opinion
Lavaud v. Country-Wide Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 16, 2006PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*746In an action to recover damages for the bad faith refusal to settle a personal injury claim, the plaintiff appeals from an order and judgment (one paper) of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Harkavy, J.), dated October 18, 2004, which granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint and denied the plaintiffs cross motion for summary judgment.
Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, with costs.
“[A]n insurer may be held liable for the breach of its duty of ‘good faith’ in defending and settling claims over which it exercises exclusive control on behalf of its…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Pavia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1993
- Vecchione v. Amica Mutual InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2000
- Levit v. Allstate InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004
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