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RANCOSKY v. WASHINGTON NAT. INS. CO.

No. 28 WAP 2016.

170 A.3d 364 (2017)

Matthew RANCOSKY, Administrator DBN of the Estate of Leann Rancosky and Matthew Rancosky, Executor of the Estate of Martin L. Rancosky, Appellee, v. WASHINGTON NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as successor by merger to Conseco Health Insurance Company, formerly known as Capital American Life Insurance Company, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.

DECIDED: September 28, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jacob C. Cohn, Esq. , Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP, Rod Brandon McCullough, Esq. , Henry M. Sneath, Esq. , Picadio, Sneath, Miller & Norton, P.C., Katharine Joan Thompson, Esq. , Gordon & Rees LLP, for Appellant.

Sean Peter Wajert, Esq. , Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P., for Appellant Amicus Curiae.

Kenneth Robert Behrend, Esq. , Kevin M. Miller, Esq. , Behrend & Ernsberger P.C., for Appellee.

Scott B. Cooper, Esq. , Schmidt Kramer, P.C., James C. Haggerty, Esq. , Haggerty, Goldberg, Schleifer & Kupersmith, P.C., John Jacob Hare, Esq. , Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin, P.C., Michael Hillel Sampson, Esq. , George L. Stewart II, Esq. , Michael Patrick Yingling, Esq. , Reed Smith LLP, Andrew M. Roman, Esq. , for Amicus Curiae.

SAYLOR, C.J., BAER, TODD, DONOHUE, DOUGHERTY, WECHT, MUNDY, JJ.

OPINION

In this discretionary appeal, we consider, for the first time, the elements of a bad faith insurance claim brought pursuant to Pennsylvania's bad faith statute found at 42 Pa.C.S. § 8371.1 For the reasons set forth below, we adopt the two-part test articulated...

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