Lori A. Wacker-Ciocco and Michael J. Ciocco v. Government Employees Insurance Company, D/B/A Geico

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “proof an insured is entitled to coverage as a matter of law is a necessary pre-requisite to pursuing discovery regarding a bad faith claim”
• “If the insured is unable to establish a right to the coverage claimed, the bad faith claim must be dismissed.”
• “If there is a valid question of coverage, i.e., the claim is ‘fairly debatable,’ the insurer bears no liability for bad faith.”
• “It promotes judicial economy and efficiency by holding in abeyance expensive, time-consuming, and potentially wasteful discovery on a bad faith claim that may be rendered moot . . . .” (internal quotation marks omitted) (brackets removed)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).