Lawrence v. Western Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• summarizing Frazier v. Metro. Life Ins. Co., 169 Cal. 19 App. 3d 90, 103–04 (1985)
• referring to the one-year suit provision in homeowners' policies as a \legislatively enacted statute of limitations\
• noting 7 that it was the “subsequent event [which] occurred after the initial policy coverage was 8 triggered which was the basis for the cause of action”
• if allegation of tortious bad faith relates to claim on underlying policy rather than to conduct or event subsequent to loss, action is on the policy
• bad faith related to complete denial of the claim on the underlying policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).