Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Bad faith insurance refers to an insurer’s attempt to renege on its obligations to its ...

Some insurance payments are treated as tax-free by the IRS. For example, if you pay for car insurance and your insurance carrier later repairs your car after an accident, the amount of the repair bill ...

The insurance relationship is contractual, but when policyholders claim insurers failed to honor their obligations, they typically invoke the tort of "bad faith." In these contexts, the possibility of ...

The recent wildfires in Southern California and natural disasters elsewhere in the country have left thousands of people grappling with enormous loss — and the complex insurance claims process that ...