Life Insurance Beneficiary Cannot Pursue Bad Faith Damages Claims, Judge Says

(April 28, 2023, 4:37 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A life insurance beneficiary cannot pursue bad faith penalties, damages and attorney fees against a life insurer because the beneficiary failed to show that the life insurer’s withholding of benefits was unreasonable following the beneficiary’s arrest for the death of her insured husband and following a dispute with the decedent’s sons over the life insurance proceeds, a Louisiana federal judge said in granting the life insurer’s motion for summary judgment on the bad faith damages claims....