Boylan v. American Motorists Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that penalty provisions of § 86.13 of Iowa Workers’ Compensation Act not intended as sole remedy for all wrongful conduct
• establishing independent bad faith tort liability for insurers because workers’ compensation act does not provide an adequate remedy
• finding bad faith claims in workers’ compensation cases are not precluded by the exclusive remedy provision
• “[Rjecognition of tort liability on the part of workers’ compensation insurance carriers guilty of the type of bad faith conduct ... recognized in Dolan is a logical extension of that decision.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).