Brehm v. 21st Century Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that insurer's \unreasonably low\ settlement offer \in light of the medical evidence in its possession at that time\ was evidence of bad faith
• holding that insurer’s “unreasonably low” settlement offer “in light of the medical evidence in its possession at that time” was evidence of bad faith
• “As a general rule ... there can be no breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing if no benefits are due under the policy.”
• reasonableness of insurer’s “settlement counteroffer at the time it was made is simply not a question that can be resolved at the pleading stage” because whether an insurer has acted unreasonably “ ‘is a question of fact to be determined by the jury’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).