Saturday, June 20, 2015

Arizona Reduces Punitive Damages in Insurance Bad Faith Case Again

By Jaburg Wilk - Phoenix, Arizona

In Arellano v. Primerica Life Insurance Company, 235 Ariz. 371, 332 P.3d 597 (App. 2014), despite finding an insurer's conduct moderately to highly reprehensible, the Arizona Court of Appeals recently reduced a punitive damages award from $1,117,572 to $328,000-a 4:1 ratio to bad faith compensatory damages of $82,000.

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