Late policyholder Curtis Campbell's...

Late policyholder Curtis Campbell's 23-year-old bad-faith lawsuit against State Farm Insurance has reached its extreme point with the U.S. Supreme Court denying an appeal at the nation's largest personal-lines insurer of an order from the Utah Supreme Court to pay $9 million in punitive damages.

Stemming from a 1981 automobile accident in which Campbell was construct liable for $186,000 in damages to couple other drivers--one died and the other was permanently disabled--the Campbell case already had been the bring under rule of an April 2003 greatest Court decision. Written by