Mealey's ( October 25, 2021, 8:32 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Oct. 21 affirmed a district court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of an auto insurer on a bad faith claim after determining that the lower court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the assignees failed to show that there was a genuine dispute of material fact on their bad faith claim....