Dayton v. Farmers Insurance Group

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a court has power to award attorney fees when authorized by “contract, statute, or recognized ground of equity”
• noting that Washington courts cannot award attorneys’ fees in absence of a contract, statute, or recognized ground of equity
• declining to award fees in a case involving a disagreement over damages arising from a car accident
• declining to award fees in a case involving a disagreement over damages arising from a car accident
• no reasonable attorney fees allowed where the insurer accepted coverage but resisted paying the claim on its facts thereby forcing its insured through arbitration
• the UIM carrier is not compelled to pay if the same recovery could not be obtained from the tortfeasor

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).