Deerfield Plastics Co. v. Hartford Insurance 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 recover for his insurer’s negligence in investigating a workers compensation claim
• reaching the same conclusion regarding burdens in a dispute over an insurer’s unreasonable settlement of a workers’ compensation claim
• identifying role of \certain established experience rating principles\ in determining insured's annual premium charges
• insurance company has the burden of proving that it acted reasonably, at least when the insured raised the question of the insurer’s negligence
• insurance claim wherein defendant argued by analogy to legal malpractice actions regarding the burden of proof
• “the question here is the reasonableness of the settlement and, assuming the claim had some settlement value, the probable consequences of an [adjudication] are not important”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).