Chavers v. National SEC. Fire & Cas. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• intentional failure by insurer to perform duty to act in good faith in paying valid claim is actionable tort
• “[T]he inherent policy considerations mandat[e] our recognition of a re-dressable tort for intentional breach of good faith”
• reaffirming rejection of negligence theory for handling direct claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).