Haddick v. Valor Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• “We reverse and hold that an insurance company has a duty to act in good faith in settling a claim against its policyholder in a timely manner both before and after suit is filed.”
• \We reverse and hold that an insurance company has a duty to act in good faith in settling a claim against its policyholder in a timely manner both before and after suit is filed.\
• an insurer’s duty to act in good faith in responding to settlement offers “is implied in law to protect the policyholder from exposure to liability in excess of coverage as a result of the insurer’s gamble on which only the policyholder may lose”
• an insurer’s duty to act in good faith in responding to settlement offers “is implied in law to protect the policyholder from exposure to liability in excess of coverage as a result of the insurer’s gamble on which only the policyholder may lose”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).