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(This article was originally published in Lawyers Weekly USA, Boston, MA, another Dolan Media publication.)
In a case that highlighted a disturbing trend of companies using incentive programs to minimize on-the-job injury reports, a South Dakota man recently won $5 million in a bad faith claim against the construction company he worked for.See the full content of this document
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Plaintiffs Use Little Known Theory to Win Bad Faith Insurance Case
After a six day trial, Pennington County jurors ordered Hills Materials and its parent company Oldcastle Materials to pay Ron Hubbard $65,000 in compensatory damages and $5 million in punitive damages.
The plaintiffs claimed that a supervisor, spurred on by company polici...See the full content of this document
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