Litigation Privilege Does Not Apply In Insurance Bad Faith Case, California Court Says
A federal judge in San Diego rejected an insurer's efforts to strike significant portions of a bad faith lawsuit based on the litigation privilege.
April 20, 2018 at 11:22 AM
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A federal district court in California has rejected an insurer's efforts to strike significant portions of an insurance bad faith complaint on the basis of the litigation privilege, although it relied on the mediation privilege to strike limited parts of two paragraphs of the complaint.
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