Columbia National Insurance v. Freeman

How courts have described this case

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• noting that a claim of bad faith requires that there be a “just obligation” between the insurer and the insured
• punitive damages for bad faith potentially available when insurer “affirmatively engages in dishonest, malicious, or oppressive conduct in order to avoid a just obligation to its insured”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).