A Nevada state court jury heard opening statements Monday in a lawsuit seeking $20 million from insurer USAA for supposedly acting in bad faith by refusing to pay a clients claims after a rear-end collision and then litigating against him.
Plaintiff Timothy Kuhn claims he suffered a serious brain injury after being rear-ended by a pickup truck in 2018. Despite USAA initially agreeing the accident was 100 percent the fault of the other driver, Kuhn alleges the company then breached its obligations to him by intervening in his lawsuit against the pickup driver and then arguing their own client was at fault for the accident.
USAA maintains Kuhns head injuries are not nearly as serious as claimed, and that they fulfilled their obligations to him by eventually making a $250,000 policy limit payment days before the trial began, and that Kuhn had the option of pursuing additional coverage from a separate insurer.
