Bad faith
Bad faith lawsuits may result in large awards of punitive damages. A famous example is "State Farm Mutual Auto. Ins. Co. v. Campbell", in which the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a jury verdict of $145 million in punitive damages against State Farm. Bad faith cases may also be slow, at least in the third party context, because they are necessarily dependent upon the outcome of any underlying litigation. For example, the 2003 "Campbell" decision involved State Farm's handling of litigation resulting from a fatal car accident in 1981, 22 years earlier.