A & E Supply Company, Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company, a & E Supply Company, Inc. v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding “federal courts should be reluctant to read private rights of action into state laws where state courts and state legislatures have not done so”
• noting that the Supreme Court of Virginia has yet to adopt this analysis for determination whether a private right of action should be implied
• stating that an independent tort \is one that is factually bound to the contractual breach but whose legal elements are distinct from it\
• holding under Virginia law that a bad faith breach of contract justifies an award of full consequential damages
• finding that the Virginia Unfair Insurance Practices Act does not create a private cause of action, concluding that the Virginia Supreme Court “would reach the same result”
• finding the exclusive remedy to be the system of administrative oversight with appellate judicial review established by the Code

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).