Ness v. Western Security Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• clarifying that an argument without citations to legal authority is insufficient to preserve an issue on appeal
• limiting appellate review to matters included in record of proceedings in the trial court
• stating an appellate court cannot consider evidence outside the trial court record
• “The cause of action does not accrue until the insurer breaches, and the insurer does not breach until it denies the claim.”
• “The cause of action [for bad faith] arises only when all three elements are present.”
• “[A]n issue raised for the first time in appellant’s reply brief comes too late.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).