Northern Insurance v. Kregsman

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “while the contract did not establish a formal fiduciary relationship, the pleadings were sufficient to raise an issue as to the existence of an informal one”
• noting that fiduciary relationship can be found between close friends or where confidence is based upon prior business dealings
• recognizing a breach of a fiduciary duty where a “special relationship of trust and confidence” has been “betrayed”
• noting that fiduciary relationship can be found between close friends or where confidence is based upon prior business dealings
• dismissing a declaratory judgment claim concerning the calculation of future payments where resolution of the breach-of-contract claims would “sufficiently guide the parties on their future performance of the contracts”
• dismissing declaratory judgment claims where the claims “parallel” separate breach of contract claims and “merely seek a declaration of the same rights and obligations as will be determined under [the breach of contract claims]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).