Martin v. Prier Brass Manufacturing Co.

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• holding that coverage offered by self-insured employer constituted bilateral contract, not group insurance contract, in which insurance was quid pro quo for employment performance
• determining that defendant acted in bad faith when it subjectively read contract terms to allow for termination of benefits at will and without notice
• exercising judgment “conferred by the express terms of agreement in such a manner as to evade the spirit of the transaction or so as to deny the other party the expected benefit of the contract” violates the duty of good faith
• exercising judgment ―conferred by the express terms of agreement in such a manner as to evade the spirit of the transaction or so as to deny the other party the expected benefit 19 of the contract,‖ violates the duty of good faith
• the implied covenant of good faith “prevents one party to the contract to exercise a judgment conferred by the express terms of agreement in such a manner as to evade the spirit of the transaction or so as to deny the other party the expected benefit of the contract.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).