Filasky v. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that pain, humiliation, inconvenience, pecuniary losses, and punitive damages may be recovered in a bad faith action
• insurer’s intentional failure to pay a claim without a reasonable basis for such action constitutes a breach of the implied duty of good faith
• in insurance bad faith case, jury awarded plaintiff $100,000 in damages for emotional distress
• \All we require of the trial judge is that he convey in his instructions to the jury the substance of the applicable legal standard.\
• insurer’s reasons for delaying settlement of insured’s three claims “were groundless or inadequately investigated”
• delay in paying benefits under contract supports bad faith claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).