Maryland Insurance Co. v. Head Industrial Coatings & Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insurer owes no duty of good faith and fair dealing to investigate claims by a third party
• refusing to recognize a cause of action of breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing under Stowers
• refusing to recognize a cause of action of breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing under Stowers
• finding waiver of \Mary Carter\ public policy argument absent objection at trial court
• “[A]n insured is fully protected against his insurer’s refusal to defend or mishandling of a third-party claim by his contractual and Stowers rights.”
• superseded by statute on other grounds

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).