Additional Insured Failed To Show Specific Jurisdiction Exists Over Insurer  

( May 15, 2024, 2:35 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on May 14 granted, with leave to amend, an insurer’s motion to dismiss an additional insured’s bad faith complaint arising out of the insurer’s appointment of counsel to represent the additional insured and the insured in an arbitration proceeding in Texas because the additional insured failed to show that specific jurisdiction exists in California over the insurer....