McCormick v. Sentinel Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the insured’s “failure to supply a single item of information on the claim form” raised a question of fact
• indicating that the duty of insurers in first party claims can be merely different aspects of the same duty as is present in third party claims
• denying insurer’s motion for summary judgment on insured's bad faith claim where some of the delay in processing insured's claim could be attributed to insurer, even if some of the delay could also be attributed to insured
• denying insurer's motion for summary judgment on insured's bad faith claim where some of the delay in processing insured's claim could be attributed to insurer, even if some of the delay could also be attributed to insured
• insured’s substantial compliance with disability policy’s claims filing requirements precluded summary judgment for insurer on insured’s claim for breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing based on insurer’s allegedly unreasonable handling of the claim
• “An insurance company cannot insulate itself from liability simply 25 because rather than denying benefits outright it keeps a claims file on the shelf for months or years 26 without ever formally denying it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).