Lawton v. Great Southwest Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• recasting insured’s claims against insurer for “negligent” and “reckless” “failure to make payment” on an insurance contract as breach of contract claims and consequently rejecting recovery of emotional damages because they “are not generally recoverable in a contract action”
• \We hold that allegations of an insurer's wrongful refusal or delay to settle a first-party claim do not state a cause of action in tort.\
• “a breach of contract standing alone does not give rise to a tort action”
• upholding dismissal of tort count in breach of contract action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).