Opinion ID: 2320872
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Heading: Threatening to Appeal From an Arbitration Award

Text: [¶ 30] An insurer is liable under the UCSPA for [t]hreatening to appeal from an arbitration award in favor of an insured for the sole purpose of compelling the insured to accept a settlement less than the arbitration award. Id. § 2436-A(1)(C). The plaintiffs contend that the litigation regarding the remaining UM coverage after Saucier was decided in favor of the insured was equivalent to threatening to appeal from an arbitration award. [¶ 31] The language of the UCSPA provision at issue is not ambiguous: an insurer may be liable for threatening to appeal an arbitration award rendered in favor of the insured. Here, there is no arbitration award. The Superior Court was correct in granting Allstate's motion for summary judgment on this issue.