O.K. Lumber Co. v. Providence Washington Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the Unfair Claim Settlement Practices Act does not provide a private cause of action for insureds or third-party claimants
• holding that liability insurer did not owe duty of good faith and fair dealing to injured third-party claimant
• holding that Alaska's Unfair Trade Practices Act does not contain an implied private cause of action
• holding that “[a]ny obligation to deal with settlement offers in good faith runs only to the insured”; observing that “insurer could hardly have a fiduciary relationship both with the insured and a claimant”
• stating that a \fiduciary relationship [is] inherent in every insurance contract\
• declining to recognize a tort duty of good faith and fair dealing independent of the contractual relationship

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).