Chester v. State Farm Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• finding that because dispute over replacement cost versus actual cash value was “fairly debatable,” insurer could not be deemed in bad faith for refusing to pay until issue was adjudicated
• finding that because dispute over replacement cost versus actual cash value was “fairly debatable,” insurer could not be deemed in bad faith for refusing to pay until issue was adjudicated
• affirming jury’s finding of insurer’s bad-faith delay in paying undisputed claims where expert testimony showed that insurer’s submission of Chester to “prolonged and confusing process” of filling out forms could have been tactic used by insurer to “ ‘starve out’ ” Chester

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).