Evans v. Mutual Assur., Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a cause of action arising out of a failure to settle a third-party claim does not accrue until the claimant obtains a judgment exceeding the policy limits
• stating that 'a cause of action arising out of a failure to settle a third-party claim made against the insured does not accrue unless and until the claimant obtains a final judgment in excess of the policy limits'
• defining a first-party claim as one where “the insured alleged that the insurer had, in bad faith, refused to pay a legitimate claim made by the insured on his own policy.”
• “[A] cause of action arising out of a failure to settle a third-party claim made against the insured does not accrue unless and until the claimant obtains a final judgment in excess of the policy limits.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).