Highmark West Virginia, Inc. v. Jamie

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “while a breach of contract may best be alleged in the express words of the contract, the use of such words is not necessary.”
• providing that “an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing does not provide a cause 7 of action apart from a breach of contract claim”
• “[A]n implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing does not provide a cause of action apart from a breach of contract claim.”
• the breach of “an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing does not provide a cause of action apart from a breach of contract claim.”
• “it has been held that an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing does not provide a cause of action apart from a breach of contract claim.”
• dismissal for failure to state a claim “with prejudice” was consistent with the entry of judgment pursuant to Rule 54(b), as the possibility of pleading further would have made an appeal inappropriate

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).