Gardner v. Hartford Insurance Accident & Indemnity Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that “[w]here an objectively reasonable basis for denial of a claim actually exists, the insurer cannot be held liable for bad faith as a matter of law”
• holding industrial commissioner’s approval of contested case settlement barred employee’s subsequent bad-faith tort claim against his employer’s insurer
• holding industrial commissioner’s approval of contested case settlement barred employee’s subsequent bad-faith tort claim against his employer’s insurer
• holding industrial commissioner’s approval of contested case settlement barred employee’s subsequent bad-faith tort claim against his employer’s insurer
• stating issue preclusion protects litigants from “the vexation of relitigating identical issues with identical parties” and the doctrine “promotes judicial economy”
• applying the doctrine of issue preclusion to employer’s defensive use of the commission determinations and finding that issue preclusion barred the plaintiff from maintaining her tort claims

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).