McCauley Enterprises, Inc. v. New Hampshire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• reasoning that “[ejxercise of a lawful right cannot be either wrongful or in bad faith”
• interpreting a policy containing a separation of insureds clause and holding that \[t]he language 'any insured' has been consistently interpreted as expressing a contractual intent to create joint obligations and to prohibit recovery by an innocent co-insured\
• interpreting a policy containing a separation of insureds clause and holding that “[t]he language ‘any insured’ has been consistently interpreted as expressing a contractual intent to create joint obligations and to prohibit recovery by an innocent co-insured”
• interpreting a policy containing a separation of insureds clause and holding that “[t]he language ‘any insured’ has been consistently interpreted as expressing a contractual intent to create joint obligations and to prohibit recovery by an innocent co-insured”
• delay in rejecting proofs of loss not in bad faith where proofs were untimely, and delay in formally denying coverage did not constitute bad faith where defendant was continuing its investigation, and “such conduct cannot support an inference of bad faith handling of an insurance claim.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).