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- Title: Haugh v. Allstate Insurance Co.
- Author : Third Circuit U.S. Court Of Appeals
- Release Date : January 28, 2003
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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This matter comes on before this court on an appeal from an order of the district court entered October 22, 2001, granting summary judgment in favor of Allstate Insurance Company in this insurance policy bad faith action predicated on Allstates failure to settle a claim asserted by appellant Dennis Haugh against its insured, Theodore Uher. The district court held that the statute of limitations barred Haughs statutory bad faith claim against Allstate and rejected his argument that as Uhers assignee he can assert a separate common law cause of action for breach of Allstates duty to act in good faith toward Uher. For the reasons set forth herein we disagree with the district court as we cannot say at this time that the action is time barred and we conclude that Haugh adequately has pled a viable common law action. Accordingly, we will reverse the order of October 22, 2001, and remand the case to the district court for further proceedings.