STATE FARM MUT. AUTOMOBILE INS. CO.V. CAMPBELL

STATE FARM MUT. AUTOMOBILE INS. CO.V. CAMPBELL: "To further insulate itself from liability, trial evidence indicated, State Farm made “systematic” efforts to destroy internal company documents that might reveal its scheme, App. to Pet. for Cert. 123a, efforts that directly affected the Campbells, id., at 124a. For example, State Farm had “a special historical department that contained a copy of all past manuals on claim-handling practices and the dates on which each section of each manual was changed.” Ibid. Yet in discovery proceedings, State Farm failed to produce any claim-handling practice manuals for the years relevant to the Campbells’ bad-faith case. Id., at 124a—
125a."

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