During the last decade, the insurance industry has been ravaged by a sharp increase in bad faith litigation. Seeking to pass off liability to “deep pocket” insurers, disgruntled claimants and insureds have exploited the law of jurisdictions where the breach of the contractual covenant of good faith and fair dealing has been twisted into the tort of “bad faith."

Bollinger, Ruberry & Garvey has been in the vanguard of efforts to control this unjust expansion, protecting its insurer clients from the groundless accusations of bad faith plaintiffs and the windfall extra-contractual damages they seek. Our insurance litigation group attacks the basis for the bad faith allegations and positions the litigation for resolution through motion practice, favorable settlement or trial. We have won numerous cases where the exorbitant demands of the bad faith plaintiffs have been completely dismissed or reduced to favorable judgments or settlements.