( August 5, 2026, 8:41 AM EDT) -- RICHMOND, Va. — A Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found that a lower court was right to grant summary judgment in favor of an insurance carrier and its claims administrator on a general contractor’s claims seeking damages under West Virginia’s Hayseeds doctrine — which allows insured who substantially prevail against their insurers to recover attorney fees and other consequential damages — and for statutory bad faith arising from the insurer’s handling of a construction defect coverage dispute, holding that no reasonable jury would find in the contractor’s favor....