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171333P.pdf 07/03/2018 Alexandra Sims v. State Farm
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 17-1333
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Kelly, Author, with Loken and Beam, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Insurance. The district court applied the applicable Arkansas
legal standard in granting State Farm summary judgment on plaintiff's bad
faith refusal to pay claim and did not err in finding that there was no
genuine issue of material fact that State Farm's conduct did not
constitute bad faith; the district court did not err in excluding
plaintiff's proposed evidence regarding State Farm's practice of denying
claims as that evidence had no bearing on the amount of damages on
plaintiff's underinsured motorist claim.