Alton M. Johnson Co. v. M.A.I. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the reasonableness of a settlement agreement is “a question of fact . . . to be decided by the court as the factfinder”
• holding that an insurer was not entitled to a jury trial on the issue of reasonableness of the settlement because of the complexity of the issue
• noting that, in a Miller-Shugart setting, “the exposed insured has no incentive to drive a hard bargain”
• rejecting alternatives of either letting insurer escape all liability or allowing trial court to decide on a reasonable amount of damages
• setting forth objective test to determine whether settlement is reasonable in insurance coverage dispute
• enforcing Miller-Shugart judgment against insurer after a separate trial to establish coverage

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).