ATLANTA - An insurer fulfilled its duties to its policyholder "by trying, though unsuccessfully, to obtain . . . a release from liability" in an underlying personal injury case, a panel in the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a per curium opinion on Feb. 19, affirming a lower court's ruling that granted the insurer summary judgment on bad faith denial of insurance claims (Shin Crest PTE Ltd., et al. v. AIU Insurance Co., No. 09-13137, 11th Cir.; 2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 3460). From Mealey's Litigation Report: Insurance Bad Faith