DeWalt v. Ohio Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that the bad faith standard does “not creat[e] an absolute duty for insurance companies to settle claims whenever a possible judgment against their insureds might exceed the amount of coverage”
• “Although most Pennsylvania cases finding bad faith do so in situations where an insurer refuses to settle, no case suggests that such a refusal is a pre-requisite for a bad faith claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).