Bates v. Allied Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting in first-party bad faith cases the insurer has a fiduciary relationship with the insured, while the insurer has an adversarial relationship with a third-party claimant
• stating the standard as “preponderance of clear, satisfactory and convincing evidence”
• third party does not have a cause of action against tort-feasor’s insurer for bad faith
• third party does not have a cause of action against tort-feasor’s insurer for bad faith
• action for damages for fraudulent misrepresentation leading to settlement agreement that was later rescinded
• “In fact, our analysis in Seeman is very explicit in indicating that the intention of chapter 507B is not to create a private cause of action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).