Fidelity & Guaranty Insurance v. Star Equipment Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that, as all parties signed the Settlement Memorandum of Understanding with the present intent to settle claims, it was binding
• applying Massachusetts contract law in diversity action involving challenge to enforcement of a settlement agreement
• defining bad faith as “dishonest purpose, conscious doing of wrong, or breach of duty through motive of self-interest or ill will.”
• upholding enforcement of settlement while noting that opposing parties did not claim “they were coerced into signing the agreement or that their counsel settled their claim without authority”
• “[Bjefore the original suit is dismissed, the party seeking to enforce the [settlement] agreement may file a motion with the trial court”
• “a party to a settlement agreement may seek to enforce the agreement’s terms when the other party refuses to comply” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).