Kwabena Wadeer v. New Jersey Manufacturers Insurance Company (072010)

How courts have described this case

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• holding the acts complained of were identical when they involved the conduct of the same insurer
• explaining that because bad faith claim continued throughout the course of the underlying litigation, fairness permitted such claim to be asserted as a separate and independent claim in later action
• explaining that the “entire controversy doctrine” applies to preclude subsequently asserted claims by a party where they “arise from related facts or the same transaction or series of transactions” as the previously asserted claims
• observing that the central consideration of the entire controversy doctrine is whether the subsequent claim arises “from related facts or the same transaction or series of transactions” of the first matter (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)
• describing the unidentified vehicle that caused an accident as a \phantom vehicle\
• quot ing Highland Lakes Country Club & Cmty. Ass’n v. Nicastro, 201 N.J. 123, 988 A.2d 90, 91 (2009)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).