United States Seventh Circuit
Iowa Physicians' Clinic Med. Found. v. Physicians Ins. Co. of Wisconsin, 08-1297
In a suit in which plaintiff-policyholder sought damages in tort for the alleged bad-faith refusal by defendant-insurer to settle a malpractice claim against an insured doctor who was plaintiff's employee, judgment for defendant is affirmed where under state law, a bad-faith claim was available only to an insured, not to an uninsured policyholder.
Appellate Information
- Decided 10/31/2008
- Published 10/31/2008
Judges
- EVANS, Circuit Judge., Before KANNE, EVANS, and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Seventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- George F. Galland, Jr. (argued), Miner, Barnhill & Galland, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
- For Appellees:
- William K. McVisk (argued), Johnson & Bell, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.