There are many different examples of Insurance Bad Faith, but some famous examples are:

Aetna Insurance

A jury awarded $4.5 million for medical expenses and $116 million in punitive damages to the widow of a deceased stomach cancer patient. She had sued Aetna for denying her husband coverage for cancer treatment that may have prolonged his survival. Aetna was found guilty of placing its own financial interests before the needs of a policyholder.

Forklift Accident

A Pennsylvania court awarded $12 million to a woman who had lost her leg in a forklift accident after finding the insurer’s practices to be in bad faith.

Provident and Unum

A woman in California had her claim approved, but the insurer was soon taken over by Provident (which later merged with Unum), which reviewed the doctor’s claim and terminated her benefits. She sued the insurer and was awarded past and future benefits, along with $5 million in punitive damages, for a total of $7.6 million.

CUNA Mutual Insurance

A federal jury in Iowa awarded $6.2 million to the estate of a woman who was repeatedly denied disability claims by her insurer, CUNA Mutual Insurance Society. 

Paul Revere Life Insurance Company - Unum Provident

In Utah, a Las Vegas man received $50 million after his insurers, Paul Revere Life Insurance Company and its parent company, Unum Provident, were found by the court to have acted in bad faith when they denied his disability claim.

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