Packard Thurber v. Commissioner

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an “insurer’s bad faith action creates the need 7 to presume harm and apply the coverage by estoppel remedy”
• noting that bad faith failure to defend “will create liability for the insurer to pay at least policy limits”
• holding presumption of harm and coverage by estoppel apply under a policy of professional liability insurance if the insurer fails to provide a defense to the insured in bad faith
• citing, Greer v. Northwestern Nat’l Ins. Co., 109 Wn.2d 191, 202-03, 743 P.2d 1244 (1987)
• discussing a rebuttable presumption of harm for an 23 insurer’s bad-faith breach of contract and the remedy of coverage by estoppel
• insurance bad faith estoppel, as the name implies, requires bad faith denial by insured

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).