NEWHAM v. NATIONWIDE MUT. INS. CO.


61 A.D.2d 1067 (1978)

Paul Newham et al., Appellants, v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., Respondent

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

March 9, 1978


The plaintiffs seek to secure damages from the defendant upon the ground that it failed to defend and otherwise properly carry out its contractual obligations as insurer because of bad faith in failing to offer the policy limits ($10,000) in settlement of a negligence action brought against the plaintiffs by a third party. It is undisputed that the plaintiff, Paul Newham, advised the defendant that he struck the car of one Dnistrian causing injury to one Du Bois because the...

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