Elmore v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding a “common law duty of good faith and fair dealing in insurance cases ... runs between insurers and insureds and is based bn the existence of a contractual relationship”
• finding the relationship between an insurer and a third-party claimant is adversarial and not characterized by a fiduciary duty
• defining fiduciary relationship and determining that no such relationship runs from an insurance carrier to a third-party claimant
• “A third party has no cause of action against an insurance carrier for common law breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing or for common law breach of fiduciary duty.”
• “A third party has no cause of action against an insurance carrier for common law breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing or for common law breach of fiduciary duty.”
• \A third party has no cause of action against an insurance carrier for common law breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing or for common law breach of fiduciary duty.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).