A Pennsylvania judge has denied insurance giant State Farm's bid to end a bad-faith lawsuit that alleges the company refused to reimburse a man who had been charged for stacking insurance coverage even though he owned only one vehicle.
Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Frederica Massiah-Jackson last month rejected State Farm's preliminary objection motion that sought to dismiss the bad-faith claim brought by plaintiff Anthony Caputo.
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|Failure to disclose for 18 years?
Although State Farm contended the claims should be dismissed because Caputo never told the company he wished to discontinue stacking, Massiah-Jackson said that argument was “audacious,” given Caputo's allegations the company “masked the stacking coverage by failing to disclose it [to Caputo] for 18 years.”
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Max Mitchell
Max Mitchell is ALM's Regional Managing Editor for The Legal Intelligencer, New Jersey Law Journal, Delaware Business Court Insider and Delaware Law Weekly. Follow him on Twitter @MMitchellTLI. His email is [email protected].
