Handgards, Inc. v. Johnson & Johnson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendants waived attorney-client privilege as to the reasons why lawsuits were brought when they called their own attorneys as witnesses to demonstrate that the lawsuits were initiated in good faith pursuant to competent legal advice
• insured can demonstrate bad faith only through discovery of information in hands of insurance company and its attorneys
• “The deliberate injection of the advice of counsel defense into a case waives the attorney-client privilege as to communications and documents relating to the advice.”
• “An important consideration in assessing the issue of waiver is fairness.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).