Fortner v. Grange Mutual Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendant insurance company’s conditions on accepting a settlement offer were within its control and could be considered by a jury in determining whether the defendant acted reasonably in failing to settle
• discussingBrightman and explaining that its safe harbor provision “protects an insurer from liability under the reasonableness standard based on an allegation that it failed to satisfy a settlement condition over which it had no control” (emphasis omitted)
• Whether an insurance company acted in “bad faith in refusing to settle depends on whether the insurance company acted reasonably in responding to a settlement offer[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• Whether an insurance company acted in “bad faith in refusing to settle depends on whether the insurance company acted reasonably in responding to a settlement offer[.]” (citation and punctuation omitted)
• When “an insurer acts in bad faith in refusing to settle a personal claim against its insured within the policy limits, it may be liable for an excess judgment entered against its insured.”
• “If an insurer acts in bad faith in refusing to settle a personal claim against its insured within the policy limits, it may be liable for an excess judgment entered against its insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).