Ben Davis · Mollie McGraw · Zackeree Kelin · John Campbell
Albuquerque Jurors issue $52 Million Verdict in Insurance Bad Faith Lawsuit
February 7, 2023 6:30 PM||TLU n Demand
Albuquerque, NM – January 17, 2023 – Davis Kelin Trial Lawyers, along with Las Cruces-based McGraw Law, LLC, received a $52 million verdict in an insurance bad faith case against Professional Underwriters Liability Insurance Company (PULIC) —a wholly owned subsidiary of The Doctor’s Company—in a decade-long case relating to unfair insurance practices. In 2013, PULIC refused to defend and indemnify its insured doctor after he was sued for the wrongful death of multiple patients who died as a result of his overprescribing of opiates. The decade of insurance bad faith came to an end with a courageous verdict by an Albuquerque jury on Tuesday, January 17, 2023.
In the presentation discussing this case, the attorney will discuss:
- How to use pre-trial rulings in a bad faith case to increase its value;
- The methods used to increase juror anger, leading to a verdict which was primarily a punitive damage verdict;
- How the use of a broad consumer protection statute allowed presentation of evidence and freedom for the jury to decide the case;
- The use of big data provided by Campbell Law to understand the case and zero in on the appropriate damage request;
- Jury selection techniques;
- The closing argument that led to a massive punitive verdict
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