Jackson v. American Equity Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• disapproving use of Nicholson jury instruction in bad-faith tort action against insurer for failure to settle third-party claim against insured within policy limits
• “Breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing exposes the insurer to a claim of bad faith and may expose it to liability for any excess judgment against its insured.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).