Colford v. Chubb Life Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the contra proferentem principle does not mean that the insured must prevail every time that the insured and the insurer “disagree on the meaning of the contract”
• holding that for the plaintiff to secure emotional distress and punitive damages, he must demonstrate that the defendant committed “independently tortious conduct beyond the denial of [the plaintiff’s] disability claim”
• explaining that, to maintain such an action against a disability insurer, the insured must demonstrate that the Company’s actions “arose independently of its denial of the disability claim”
• explaining that, to maintain such an action against a disability insurer, the insured must demonstrate that the Company's actions \arose independently of its denial of the disability claim\
• requiring commission of independently tortious conduct beyond the breach of an insurance contract
• court must determine whether conduct could reasonably be deemed sufficiently extreme and outrageous to incur liability

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).