Kleckley v. Northwestern National Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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• reaffirming that a bad faith claim for \refusal to pay benefits does not extend to third parties who are not named insureds\
• holding an injuréd third party could not assert a bad faith claim against a tortfeasor’s insurance company because the injured party was not a party to the contract
• “A tort action for an insurer’s bad faith refusal to pay benefits does not extend to third parties who are not named insureds.”
• “defendant may be estopped from claiming the statute of limitations as a defense if the delay that otherwise would give operation to the statute had been induced by defendant’s conduct”
• “This Court and the Court of Appeals have repeatedly denied actions for bad faith refusal to pay claims to third parties who are not named insureds.”
• \An issue not raised to or addressed by the trial court or the Court of Appeals is not properly preserved for review by the Supreme Court . . . .\ (citing Anonymous (M-156-90) v. State Bd. of Med. Exam'rs, 329 S.C. 371, 375, 496 S.E.2d 17, 18–19 (1998

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).