Brown v. Superior Court in & for Maricopa Cy.

How courts have described this case

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

• “No matter how the test is defined, bad faith is a question of reasonableness under the circumstances.”
• in camera inspection of insurance files purportedly containing irrelevant and privileged materials was best way to determine questions of relevancy and discoverability
• in action alleging bad faith, insured’s “need for the information in the [claims] file is not only substantial, but overwhelming”
• “No matter how the test is defined, bad faith is a question of reasonableness under the circumstances.”
• tort of bad faith arises “when an insurance company intentionally denies, fails to process, or fails to pay a claim without a reasonable basis for such action”
• relevancy requirement at discovery stage “more loosely construed than that required at trial” and need only be “reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).