Morris v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• “An insurer is not a fiduciary, and owes no obligation to consider the interests pf its insured above its own.”
• when issue of whether insurer acted in bad faith depends on reasonableness of insurer’s legal position, issue presents ‘‘a pure ques- tion of law’’ subject to de novo review
• “The fact that other courts have interpreted the law in the same manner as did the insurer ... is certainly probative of the reasonableness, if not necessarily the ultimate correctness, of an insurer’s position.”
• An insurer’s decision to continue payments under a reservation of rights, rather than cut-off benefits entirely, where it concludes there is no coverage, goes to the issue of damages, not liability on a bad faith theory

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).