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Nevada Does Not Recognize Third-Party Bad Faith

Greg Gunny claimed that his father Ralph negligently operated his boat and injured him. Greg wasn’t happy with the speed at which his father’s insurance, Allstate, was handling the claim.  Greg Gunny sued Allstate directly for bad faith.In the case of Gunny v. Allstate Ins. Co., 108 Nev. 344, 830 P.2d 1335 (1992) the Nevada Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the third-party son had a cause of action for bad faith directly against his father’s insurance company.  The Nevada … [Read more...]