Insurance Bad Faith and Duty to Settle

This session, presented by Cassidy Schade partner Melissa Anderson, focuses on bad faith in connection with the breach of a duty to settle.  Ms. Anderson highlights issues that arise in cases involving multiple claimants, multiple insureds, and situations where limits of coverage may be exhausted without a global resolution.  The program is geared towards assisting in-house counsel and practitioners in identifying how acknowledgement of these issues in the context of settlement negotiations can be used to obtain a successful resolution. 

Learning Objectives:

I.    Summarize the basis of the duty to settle and when it is implicated

II.   Understand bad faith issues that are presented in cases involving multiple insureds and the exhaustion of limits on behalf of less than all insureds

III.  Comprehend bad faith issues presented in cases involving multiple claimants and the exhaustion of limits with less than all claimants

IV.  Identify the ramifications for the failure to settle in good faith