Dean v. Austin Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “whether an insurer has a reasonable basis in law or fact for contesting a claim or the amount of a claim is to be determined as any other disputed issue of fact based upon the evidence and circumstances of each case,” not as a matter of law
• when a couple’s home was destroyed by fire, and the couple was charged with arson, the issue whether the insurer had a reasonable basis to deny coverage while it was awaiting the outcome of the criminal case was not susceptible to a ruling as a matter of law

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).