Meineke v. GAB Business Services, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the relationship between adjuster and insured is sufficiently attenuated by the insurer's control over the adjuster that adjuster owes no legal duty to insureds and is not subject to negligence liability for allegedly mishandling claim
• refusing to allow negligence action against adjuster for mishandling of claim, considering that insured would be limited to either breach-of-contract or bad-faith action against insurer
• stating mere negligent actions cannot not give 2 rise to a bad faith claim
• determining relationship between adjuster and insured is sufficiently attenuated by the insurer's control over the adjuster that adjuster owes no legal duty to insureds and is not subject to negligence liability
• “Creating a separate duty from the adjuster to the insured would thrust the adjuster into what could be an irreconcilable conflict between such duty and the adjuster’s contractual duty to follow the instructions of its client, the insurer.”
• “Creating a separate duty from the adjuster to the insured would thrust the adjuster into what could be an irreconcilable conflict between such duty and the adjuster’s contractual duty to follow the instructions of its client, the insurer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).