Emma Mercado v. Allstate Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that the insurer that required a check to be made jointly payable to both the claimant and the known potential lienholders did not engage in an unfair business practice prohibited by California Business & Professions Code § 17200
• insurance agent for disclosed principal not personally liable for acts done on behalf of insurance company
• insurance agent for disclosed principal not personally liable for acts done on behalf of insurance company
• “California courts have not foreclosed common law theories as a basis for actions pursuant to § 17200.”
• “[T]he salient question ... is whether the insurer rejected the settlement in good faith.”
• “It is well established that, unless an agent or employee acts as a dual agent . . . she cannot be held individually liable as a defendant unless she acts for her own personal advantage.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).