Joanne Beckham v. Safeco Insurance Company of America, a Corporation

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insured's bad faith suit against her insurer was not a \direct action\ since it was based on the insurer's own tortious conduct
• “The present suit is clearly not a direct action since ... [the plaintiff] is seeking to impose liability on [the defendant-insurer] for its own tortious conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).