Himes v. Safeway Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[a] lawful promise made for a lawful consideration is not invalid merely because an unlawful promise was made at the same time for the same consideration.”
• describing “reasonably prudent person” as a person who has “the ability to pay a reasonable settlement amount from his or her own funds” and “makes a settlement decision as though the settlement amount came from those personal funds”
• because “inability to pay (or the potentially devastating impact of a large money judgment on a defendant
• because “inability to pay (or the potentially devastating impact of a large money judgment on a defendant
• insured’s liability and claimant’s damages relevant in examining reasonableness of settlement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).