Olson v. Rugloski

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that a contract is breached when a party “refuses to pay or unreasonably delays payment of an undisputed amount”
• stating that “[w]hen the insurer refuses to pay or unreasonably delays payment of an undisputed amount, it breaches the contract and is liable for the loss that naturally and proximately flows from the breach” (emphasis added)
• “Punitive damages are not recoverable for breach of contract except in exceptional cases where the breach of contract constitutes or is accompanied by an independent, wilful [sic] tort.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).