Charleswell v. Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that, regarding insurance transactions, the two-year limitations period applies to claims of bad faith and breach of fiduciary duty, which are based on statutory duties that exist independently of the contractual agreement
• dismissing one of plaintiffs’ CICO civil remedy claims because plaintiffs failed to allege their injury was the result of conduct constituting a violation of CICO’s criminal provisions
• “A plaintiff may not name a single corporation as both defendant and ‘enterprise’ . . . .”
• “A plaintiff may not name a single corporation as both defendant and ‘enterprise’ . . . .”
• “It is especially inappropriate to dismiss a tort claim as duplicative of a contract claim when the contours of the agreement . . . are not clear.”
• “[I]f the claim essentially alleges a breach of duties Caudill Seed & Warehouse Co. v. Prophet 21, Inc., that flow from an agreement between the parties, the claim is contractual in nature[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).