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MUTAFIS v. ERIE INS. EXCHANGE

No. 83-1421.

728 F.2d 672 (1984)

Betty J. MUTAFIS, Appellee, v. ERIE INSURANCE EXCHANGE, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Appellant, and Erie Insurance Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Defendant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 5, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James R. Watson, Clarksburg, W.V. (Steptoe & Johnson, Gordon H. Copland, Steptoe & Johnson, Clarksburg, W.V., on brief), for appellant.

David J. Romano, Clarksburg, W.V. (Young, Morgan, Cann & Romano, Clarksburg, W.V., on brief), for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, and MURNAGHAN and SPROUSE, Circuit Judges.

HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Erie Insurance Exchange (Erie) appeals from a judgment entered against it in an action under West Virginia's Unfair Trade Practices Act. The judgment was entered in favor of Betty J. Mutafis, a former policyholder of Erie, on the verdict of the jury awarding Mutafis compensatory damages of $15,000 and punitive damages of $20,000. The case arose from an Erie employee's act of placing a memorandum in Erie's claim file stating that Mutafis...

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