Alaska Pacific Assurance Co. v. Collins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that \Iplromises set forth in a contract must be enforced by an action on that contract\
• agreeing with the argument 'that “an insurer may be held liable for torts independent from its contractual duties, such as fraud,” but that “an action for negligence in breaching a specific contractual duty sounds in contract”
• “We decline to hold that where a party breaches a contractual promise ‘negligently,’ such conduct may form the basis for a tort action.”
• \A covenant of good faith and fair dealing is an implied component of all contracts as a matter of law.\
• “We decline to hold that where a party breaches a contractual promise ‘negligently,’ such conduct may form the basis for a tort action.”
• “Only where the duty breached is one imposed by law, such as a traditional tort law duty furthering social policy, may an action between contracting parties sound in tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).