Johnson v. Progressive Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “bad faith is not present merely because an insurer makes a low but reasonable estimate of an insured’s damages”
• stating that “[t]he underlying facts involve nothing more than a normal dispute between an insured and insurer over the value of an UIM claim ... [a] routin[e] [scenario] in the processing of an insurance claim.”
• noting that where there. is only a dispute as to the measure of damages in a first party claim, .a low, but reasonable valuation, will not-support .a claim of bad faith
• finding no bad faith where an insurer offered fifty percent of the ultimate arbitration award, which was not itself an act of bad faith, and then continued to litigate the issue of how much money it owed
• \The underlying facts involve nothing more than a normal dispute between an insured and insurer over the value of an [underinsured motorist] claim. The scenario under consideration occurs routinely in the processing of an insurance claim.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).