While the New Jersey Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Badiali v. NJM and Wadeer v. NJM did not aid the plaintiffs in their individual cases, the New Jersey Association for Justice is pleased that the court has recognized that the deck is unfairly stacked against insureds seeking to file first-party uninsured motorist or under-insured motorist bad-faith claims against their insurance carriers, and that this needs to be changed.
In Wadeer and Badiali the court reaffirmed the rights of an insured to bring a first-party claim against its insurance company, if it believed that the carrier had acted in bad faith in adjusting or negotiating the settlement of an uninsured or under-insured claim.
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