Knaak v. Allstate Ins. Co.

1 Citing case

  1. Roach v. Allstate Ins. Co.

    Civil Action 23-02210 (RMB/EAP) (D.N.J. Aug. 14, 2024)

    Smith v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 2020 WL 6938432, at *7 (D.N.J. Nov. 25, 2020) (Bumb, J.) (granting insurer's motion to dismiss because insured failed to raise a genuine issue of material fact to meet the “relatively high pleading standard for a bad faith claim”); Fuscellaro v. Combined Ins. Grp., 2011 WL 4549152, at *5 (D.N.J. Sept. 29, 2011) (dismissing bad faith claim at pleading stage in part because insured's allegation that insurer's reason for denying her claim was “not even debatably valid” was a legal conclusion in the guise of a factual allegation). Said differently, courts dismiss conclusory complaints that fail to plausibly allege bad faith conduct, see, e.g., Knaak v. Allstate Ins. Co., 2023 WL 4784205, at *4 (D.N.J. July 27, 2023) (dismissing bad faith complaint that failed to contain sufficient factual allegations to show an absence of a reasonable basis for denying an insured's claim for UIM coverage); Costa v. Allstate N.J. Ins. Co., 2023 WL 4418582, at *2 (D.N.J. July 10, 2023) (“Complaints will not survive dismissal where plaintiffs recite only conclusory allegations and otherwise fail to offer facts demonstrating the plausibility of their bad faith claims.”); Carfora v. Allstate N.J. Ins. Co., 2023 WL 2266226, at *1 (Feb. 28, 2023) (dismissing bad faith claims because “Plaintiff did not allege sufficient facts to suggest that Allstate lacked a reasonable basis to deny Plaintiff's UIM claim”), or that rely merely on a claim denial to raise an inference of bad faith