Chang

INTRODUCTION

Wild Chang and Kenneth Lo were insured under a policy issued by defendant Fire Insurance Exchange. They submitted a claim under the policy, which they alleged was handled in bad faith. Chang, Lo, and Chang’s son, Wild Chang, Jr. (Chang Jr.), sued Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. (Farmers), Fire Insurance Exchange, and agent Stacy Chern for breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, fraud, and other related causes of action. In their operative third amended complaint, filed in propria persona, Chang, Lo, and Chang Jr. also sued the law firm of Woolls Peer Dollinger & Scher (Woolls Peer), alleging it engaged in fraud while representing other defendants in this consolidated litigation. The trial court sustained Farmers’ demurrer to the third amended complaint without leave to amend and entered a judgment of dismissal in Farmers’ favor, which this court affirmed on appeal. (See Chang v. Farmers Insurance Company, Inc. (June 16, 2023, B321411) [nonpub. opn.].) Woolls Peer filed a special motion to strike under Code of Civil Procedure section 425.16, which the trial court granted and this court also affirmed on appeal. (See Chang v.…