2014 House Bill 5523

Expand grounds for suing insurance companies

Introduced in the House

May 6, 2014

Introduced by Rep. Ellen Lipton (D-27)

To establish a legal presumption that an insurance company has acted in bad faith if it violates a long list of specific “unfair and prohibited trade practices” in an existing law, meaning the burden of proof would be on the insurer to prove otherwise in a lawsuit authorized by House Bill 5021.

Referred to the Committee on Insurance