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Calif. Court Releases Insurers From Strict Duty To Settle

By Bibeka Shrestha ( October 22, 2013, 8:16 PM EDT) -- A California appeals court recently held that insurers generally don't have to launch settlement discussions with those injured by their policyholders in high-stakes cases, freeing insurers from the greater bad-faith liability they feared following a controversial — and later amended — Ninth Circuit opinion. . . .

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