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- Title: Wilson v. 21St Century Insurance Co.
- Author : Colorado Supreme Court
- Release Date : January 29, 2007
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
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In this first party insurance bad faith action, the question on review is whether summary judgment was properly granted for the insurer. Eight months after plaintiff Reagan Wilson was injured in an automobile accident by a drunk driver, her insurer, defendant 21st Century Insurance Company (21st Century), rejected her demand for payment of the $100,000 policy limit on her underinsured motorist coverage. Although Wilsons treating physician had opined that the 21-year-old woman had "degenerative disk changes as a result of occult disk injury at the levels in her neck from her high speed motor vehicle accident," and that these spinal changes were atypical for her age and "almost certainly" caused by the automobile accident, 21st Century rejected the claim on the asserted ground that she had suffered only soft tissue injuries in the collision and had "preexisting" degenerative disc disease. Because, based on the undisputed facts in the summary judgment record, a jury could reasonably find 21st Century reached this medical conclusion without a good faith investigation of the claim and without a reasonable basis for genuine dispute, we agree with the Court of Appeal that summary judgment on plaintiffs bad faith cause of action was improper.