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Senate Committee Rebuffs Attempt to Eliminate Bad-Faith Lawsuits

By J. Todd Foster (Reporter)

Thursday, February 15, 2018 | 0

A Senate committee has rejected a bill that aimed to eliminate bad-faith civil suits filed by claimants against insurers, and instead would have forced regulators to adjudicate the claims. The Commerce and Energy Committee voted 6-1 on Tuesday to defer Senate Bill 145 to the “41st legislative day,” which Sioux Falls claimants’ attorney Dean Nasser said “is our way of killing a bill” because there is no 41st day in the legislative session. (Lawmakers during odd-numbered years meet for 40 days, and 35 days in even-numbered years.) “They know this bill ...

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