Hudson Universal, Ltd. v. Aetna Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• following Pickett in finding that a court must dismiss a plaintiffs “bad faith” claim where a question of fact (or law) is present as to the underlying claim
• explaining that the “fairly debatable” standard “is premised on the idea that when an insurer denies coverage with a reasonable basis to believe that no coverage exists, it is not guilty of bad faith even if the insurer is later held to have been wrong”
• that “an insurer’s disclaimer of coverage cannot be held to be in bad faith unless the insured is granted summary judgment on the issue of coverage”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).