(July 19, 2024, 2:24 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a July 18 unpublished opinion affirmed a district court’s ruling in favor of an auto insurer, agreeing with the lower court’s determination that claims alleging violations of Montana’s Unfair Trade Practices Act (UTPA) and bad faith cannot proceed because the insurer did not violate the UTPA or act in bad faith by enclosing an optional release when it tendered its insured’s bodily injury limits to claimants following a motorcycle accident for which its insured was liable....