A $2 million bad-faith verdict—including roughly $1.5 million in punitive damages—against an insurance company in a property ownership dispute originating in Lackawanna County has been affirmed by the state Superior Court.
The three-judge panel ruled that Fidelity National Title Insurance did not resolve the underlying property dispute until years after it had arisen, causing the landowners, Richard and Maria Davis, to lose profits by delaying the construction of a housing development.
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