Bushey v. Allstate 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 insurance companies may challenge claims that are fairly debatable
• holding insurer could rely on independent medical witness notwithstanding evidence contrary to expert’s opinion
• recognizing cause of action for bad-faith failure to pay insurance claim
• describing the specific circumstances when first-party insurers will incur bad-faith tort liability
• rejecting plaintiff’s claim that summary judgment was premature where discovery, although not complete, had produced “a substantial amount of information,” including depositions of defendant’s personnel and its experts and responses to written interrogatories
• extending “bad faith” cause of action to first-party claims by insureds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).