A federal magistrate judge, displeased that an insurance company sent an attorney to a mandatory settlement conference who had no settlement authority, has sanction the company more than $8,000.
Farmers Insurance Exchange “did not act in good faith in connection with the court-mandated settlement conference. In fact, the opposite was true, as defendant, through its unilateral actions, rendered the conference superfluous,” Eastern District Magistrate Judge Gary Brown (See Profile) wrote in Grenion v. Farmers Insurance Exchange, 12-cv-3219.
