Economy Fire & Casualty Co. v. Collins

How courts have described this case

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

• adopting judgment rule, which “mandates that if an insurer engages in bad faith while failing to settle a claim, the insurer must compensate the insured or its assignees, regardless of financial status.”
• insured's estate' voluntarily entered into assignment agreement with plaintiff, assigning estate's cause of action against insurer, but releasing estate from any future obligation
• insured's estate voluntarily entered into assignment agreement with plaintiff, assigning estate's cause of action against insurer, but releasing estate from any future obligation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).