Hayes v. Continental Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Arizona courts have jurisdiction over bad faith actions against workers’ compensation carriers without reaching question of whether such actions are constitutionally protected
• holding that A.R.S. § 23-930 does not displace common-law tort actions for bad faith processing of claims
• holding that A.R.S. § 23-930 does not displace common-law tort actions for bad faith processing of claims
• holding that where the language of a statute is “clear and unambiguous,” 23 Arizona courts apply the plain meaning “without resorting to other methods of statutory 24 interpretation”
• stating that Arizona courts are reluctant to interpret statutes in favor of denying or preempting tort claims
• noting that \if possible we construe statutes to avoid unnecessary resolution of constitutional issues\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).