American Excess Insurance v. MGM Grand Hotels, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that there is no basis for bad 2 faith claims when the insurer’s contract interpretation is reasonable
• concluding that there is no basis for a bad faith claim where the insurer's interpretation of its contract is reasonable
• noting that the plaintiff’s bad-faith claim 23 against the insurance company could not proceed when denial of benefits was based on a reasonable interpretation of the contract
• stating that policy terms must be construed “in their plain, ordinary and popular connotations”
• providing that breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing occurs if the insurer acts with \an actual or implied awareness of the absence of a reasonable basis for denying [the] benefits of the policy\
• reversing award of attorneys’ fees in declaratory action where court found insurer had reasonable basis for denial of payment based on question concerning scope of coverage

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