Fletcher v. Western National Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• explain-ing that an insured may receive compensation “for all detriment proximately resulting [from the breach], including economic loss as well as emotional distress resulting from the conduct or from the economic losses caused by the conduct, and, in a proper case, punitive damages”
• providing the common law elements for intentional infliction of emotional distress
• “Severe emotional distress [is] of such substantial quantity or enduring quality 12 that no reasonable man in a civilized society should be expected to endure it.”
• an insurer’s intentional conduct and wanton and reckless disregard of consequences to plaintiff in delaying payments of approved benefits vital to the support of plaintiff and her children supported an IIED claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).