July 16, 2018
Two insurers don't have to cough up bad faith damages or attorneys' fees despite dragging their feet for nearly two years before launching an ultimately unsuccessful bid to back out of a case that led to a $28.5 million award against an apartment complex's owner and manager.
November 02, 2015
Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. urged a Wyoming federal judge Friday to find that they don't have to pay an apartment complex's attorneys' fees for refusing to cover a $25.5 million punitive damages verdict in a carbon monoxide poisoning suit, asserting that they had a legitimate basis to deny coverage.
October 31, 2015
The manager and owner of an apartment complex on the hook for $25.5 million in punitive damages in a carbon monoxide poisoning suit told a Wyoming federal judge Friday that Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. acted in bad faith despite claims to the contrary.
October 21, 2015
Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. asked a Wyoming federal judge on Friday to rule that they didn't act in bad faith by failing to settle a suit over carbon monoxide poisoning in an apartment complex, claiming they were blindsided when a jury returned a $25.5 million punitive damages verdict.
September 01, 2015
Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. must cover a $25.5 million punitive damages award against an apartment complex's owner and manager in an underlying carbon monoxide poisoning case, a Wyoming federal judge ruled Tuesday, saying the insurers lost their chance to assert an exclusion.
January 06, 2015
Interstate Fire & Casualty Co. and Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. on Monday urged a Wyoming federal court to find that they don't have to cover a $25.5 million punitive damages award against an apartment complex's owner and manager in an underlying carbon monoxide poisoning case.