A judge must review documents in certain insurance disputes to determine whether they have to be turned over during discovery, the Ohio Supreme Court said Thursday in a win for Farmers Insurance Group.
The lower courts erred in the way they ordered Farmers to turn over certain documents in a case that alleged the insurer acted in bad faith when it waited too long settle a claim from an underinsured motorist policy after a car crash, Justice R. Patrick DeWine (R) wrote for the 5-2 court. The justices ordered a Hamilton County Common Pleas judge to freshly review the disputed ...