Facing trial over a $10 million bad faith failure-to-settle judgment, an insurer instead settled the claims of an off-duty Clayton County deputy sheriff badly injured when her motorcycle was struck by a drunken driver. 

The settlement comes after a federal judge ruled that a jury should decide whether the insurer’s request for more information from the women—whose policy-limit demand letter specified that she did not want to be contacted by its representatives—constituted a counteroffer and was therefore a rejection.