Murphy v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• determining that punitive damages were not assignable because a portion of actual damages suffered in a bad faith claim are personal in nature
• determining that punitive damages were not assignable because a portion of actual damages suffered in a bad faith claim are personal in nature
• noting that, although a contract may not have been made solely for a third party’s benefit, a third party may enforce those promises directly made for him
• “Permitting a third party to enforce a covenant made solely to benefit others would lead to the anomaly of granting him a bonus after his receiving all intended benefit.”
• tort damages for emotional distress and punitive 27 damages are not assignable as they are purely personal tort claims
• insured’s duty to settle runs to the insured, not to the injured claimant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).