Colley v. Indiana Farmers Mutual Insurance Group

How courts have described this case

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• insurer not liable if it denies liability having a rational, principled basis to do so
• “A finding of bad faith requires evidence of a state of mind reflecting dishonest purpose, moral obliquity, furtive design, or ill will.”
• insurer not liable for bad faith if it denies liability with a rational, principled basis for doing so
• \Poor judgment or negligence do not amount to bad faith; the additional element of conscious wrongdoing must also be present.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).