Coventry Associates v. Am. States Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insured may bring a CPA claim against its insurer when the insurer conducted a bad faith investigation of the insured's claim
• holding 9 that courts do not presume harm based on an insurer’s bad faith or CPA violation
• finding that failure to investigate first-party claim was in bad faith
• finding that failure to investigate first-party claim was in bad faith
• finding that a reasonable investigation is required before coverage is denied
• bad faith investigation is actionable regardless of whether insurer properly denied coverage; expenses incurred in investigating claim establish injury and are recoverable as actual damages

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).