“Nationwide Is on Your Side” 0
Also, pigs, wings.
After a 16-year struggle, Nationwide gets adjudged to pay a $25,000 claim, plus $18,000,000 in punitive damages, described in the story as the largest punitive damages award against an insurance company for “bad faith” dealings in Pennsylvania history.
He found that the Jeep remained unsafe even after repairs.
Rather than replace it, he said, Nationwide had engaged in an extensive cover-up, hiding crash photos and other relevant information from Berg and her husband.
He said Nationwide followed a written “litigation strategy” that called for it to fight smaller claims tenaciously – even though such a strategy had been denounced by Pennsylvania courts as “unethical and unprofessional.”
Follow the link for more, including delightful quotations from the judge’s ruling.
