Boicourt v. Amex Assurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insurer can violate good faith duty without a settlement demand by the claimant, such as where insurer has a policy of never disclosing policy limits to injured parties
• noting that Merritt’s choice of language suggesting a per se rule was both “gratuitous[ ]” in the context of that case and “improvident”
• noting that Merritt’s choice of language suggesting a per se rule was both “gratuitous[ ]” in the context of that case and “improvident”
• “[A] formal settle- ment offer is not an absolute prerequisite to a bad faith action . . . .”
• “[A] formal settlement offer is not an absolute prerequisite to a bad faith action....”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).