Miel v. State Farm Mutual Automobile 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 insurer’s duty to its insured was “defined by the terms of the policy and the implied covenant” and that insured could not sue insurer “for a separate and independent claim of negligence in the way it handled the claim”
• “If the [insurance] company breaches its duty [of good faith and fair dealing], its insured . . . may recover compensatory damages for breach of contract, or damages in tort if the insurer’s actions rise to the level of bad faith.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).