COUNTERPOINT: Reverse Bad Faith Is A Necessary Weapon

Law360, New York (July 17, 2015, 11:11 AM EDT) -- In a very well-written Law360 guest article appearing on July 8, attorney Steve Knott makes a double frontal assault on insurance reverse bad faith: it does not exist, Knott claims, and it is not necessary. "Only a Victor Frankenstein jurist could stitch together such a beast," says Knott. The question of the existence of reverse bad faith is far, far less clear than the portrait painted by Knott and reverse bad faith is both a highly necessary and desirable weapon for insurers besieged with opportunistic, marginal and in some cases frivolous claims of insurer bad faith....

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