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Insurance companies are commonly thought of as acting entirely in good faith to ensure the proper and fair treatment of their insured customer. This is not often the case, as many insurance companies often violate this duty to suit their own interests with the goal of maximizing their profits and minimizing their expenses, like paying claims. Although insurance companies are legally obligated by the laws of the State of California to provide a full investigation and payment of any and all legitimate claims for their policyholders, there are often profit motivations involved behind wrongfully denying a claim. When insurance companies are alleged to act in this malicious manner, or caught doing it, it is referred to as acting in “Bad Faith”.
Insurance companies often act with deception and duplicity when upholding the terms of a contractual obligation. In these “bad faith” examples, insurance companies will act unfairly in delaying payments to those insured, offering less than what is fair or proper under a certain policy (partial denial), or by outright unfairly denying benefits to an insured party (total denial).
As filing an insurance claim is already a headache-filled scenario, the increased burden of dealing with self-interested insurance companies and their habit of making bad faith denials can be quite devastating without Jeffrey D. Nodd on your side. The Nodd Law Group has years of experience in holding those “bad faith”-practicing insurance companies accountable and fighting for your rights to recover the benefits under an existing policy. With Jeffrey D. Nodd’s successful expertise and track record of “bad faith” litigation, any insurance company practicing these tactics can be subject to action by tort and sometimes such behavior may even justify punitive damages (or punishment damages) in addition to actual damages.
Contact Jeffrey D. Nodd at (818) 501-5006 today for a free discussion on how to move forward on your suspicion of “bad faith” claim denial from your insurance company.