Paiz v. State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that every contract in New Mexico contains an implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
• holding there must be evidence of an “evil motive” or “a culpable mental state” to support an award of punitive damages
• holding there must be evidence of an \evil motive\ or \a culpable mental state\ to support an award of punitive damages
• observing that the appellant bears the burden of providing a record sufficient to justify reversal
• stating that in awarding punitive damages the inquiry should be on whether the wrongdoer acted in contravention of the victim’s rights while being consciously aware the conduct was wrongful
• holding in a punitive damages case that “a defendant acting with gross negligence ... cannot, solely because the defendant acted with such negligence, be regarded as having a culpable or ‘evil’ state of mind”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).