Egan v. Mutual of Omaha Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where 9 undisputed evidence showed that the insurer failed to properly investigate the insured’s 10 claim, the court properly held that a breach of the implied covenant was established as a 11 matter of law
• “[W]hen the insurer unreasonably 15 and in bad faith withholds payment of the claim of its insured, it is subject to liability in tort.” 16 (alteration in original; citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).