Casey v. Auto-Owners Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• declining to reform insurance contract where “[insureds] were unilaterally mistaken about the terms of their policy”
• denying motion to amend complaint to add bad faith claims because “they fail to state an action independent from [the] breach of contract claim.”
• while clear and convincing evidence of a mutual mistake of fact will support reformation of a contract, unilateral mistake will not
• “An alleged bad-faith breach of an insurance contract does not state an independent tort claim.”
• equitable estoppel “is not a cause of action unto itself; it is available only as a defense.”
• “An alleged bad faith breach of an insurance contract does not state an independent tort claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).