Nordi v. Keystone Health Plan West Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that the Terletsky court’s reference to Black’s Law Dictionary did not create a self-interest or ill-will level of culpability for bad faith claims
• stating that the Terletsky court’s reference to Black’s Law Dictionary did not create a self-interest or ill-will level of culpability for bad faith claims
• addressing the bad faith claim on the merits despite the concession that the insured's coverage claim failed
• absence of affirmative conduct defeated underlying cause of action against company for failure to pay insurance claim, not participation theory liability
• “Mere refusal to pay a claim, or failure to investigate or take other action, is nonfeasance and is, thus, not actionable” under the UTPCPL.
• “HMO Act § 1560 insulates [an HMO] from laws like the bad faith statute which ‘relate to insurance corporations engaged in the business of insurance.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).