Following retrial on remand from Thornton v. American Interstate Insurance Company, 897 N.W.2d 445 (Iowa 2017), defendant appeals from the district court judgment entered on a jury verdict awarding plaintiff compensatory and punitive damages in his action for first-party bad faith in connection with a workers compensation claim. Defendant contends: (1) the district court erred in failing to grant a judgment notwithstanding of the verdict and/or remittitur with respect to the compensatory damages; (2) the court erred in failing to grant a remittitur and conditional new trial with respect to the jury’s punitive damage award; and (3) in the event another trial is ordered, plaintiff’s attorney should be disqualified from serving as trial counsel and a damage issue should not be submitted to the jury.

County:

Pottawattamie

Trial Court Case No.:

CVCV110614