Lieber v. ITT Hartford Insurance Center, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that under Utah common law, “[attorney fees may be awarded where a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, inherent in every insurance contract, has occurred”
• stating that under Utah common law, “[attorney fees may be awarded where a breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, inherent in every insurance contract, has occurred”
• explaining that an agreement whereby the insurer would pay uninsured motorist benefits to the insured’s employee was first-party because the employee steps into the employer’s shoes
• upholding attorneys’ fees award against counsel who relied on overruled cases to support a claim that a split of authority existed
• finding that a lawyer failed to apply the black letter law where his brief relied on an overruled case and misrepresented distinguishable case law as the general rule; the lawyer also maintained that a case had no value as precedent if it was not recently cited
• plaintiffs must show insurer’s bad faith to recover attorney’s fees related to a breach of contract

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).