Associated Aviation Underwriters, Inc. v. Aon Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• settlement agreement not made in good faith where it released defendant tortfeasor found to be 90% liable in an underlying wrongful death lawsuit
• settlement agreement not made in good faith where it released defendant tortfeasor found to be 90 % liable in an underlying wrongful death lawsuit
• “settlement [that] shifts a disproportionally large and inequitable portion of the settling defendant’s liability onto the shoulders of another” “cannot be construed as a good faith settlement.”
• good faith requirement is not satisfied when the effect of the settlement is to shift “a disproportionally large and inequitable portion of the settling defendant’s liability onto the shoulders of another”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).