CVN screenshot of plaintiff attorney Kimball Jones delivering his closing argument
Las Vegas, NV – A Nevada state court jury slammed USAA with a $100 million punitive damages verdict Friday in a bad faith lawsuit over the insurance giant’s delays in paying out a claim for a zero-fault insured driver involved in a rear-end collision, and the full trial was recorded gavel-to-gavel by Courtroom View Network.
The Clark County jury awarded the $100 million, in addition to $14 million in compensatory damages, over USAA’s actions following a 2018 collision involving plaintiff Timothy Kuhn. USAA determined Kuhn was not at fault after being rear-ended in stationary highway traffic, but when Kuhn sued the driver who hit him to collect damages related to a concussion USAA intervened and argued Kuhn was responsible for the crash…