Complex Two-Week Bad Faith Bench Trial

The Firm just completed a two week bench trial defending an unusually complex bad faith action based on denial of coverage in a legal malpractice action. The legal malpractice action arose from the insured law firm’s defense of a rental car company in an underlying action involving multiple deaths and quadriplegics. Thus the recent bad faith trial involved the merits of three cases rolled into one, “a case within a case within a case”.