Insurance Bad Faith Average Verdicts

I'll file this under "I didn't know that." Maryland does not allow for punitive damages in insurance bad faith claims but not so for the rest of the country where the average bad faith punitive damage award was $6,951,219; the median award was $1,000,000.

I have no idea if this is effecting cyclists or not but some insurance companies are messing up elsewhere and getting penalized then the odds are this is happening here as well.

So in talking about manslaughter by vehicle, contributory negligence, police/courts anti-cycling bias and then now this. Just seems like opportunities to stick it to the little guy abound in Maryland.

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