Patel v. United 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.

• stating that certification only appropriate where issue likely to recur, where it will be dispositive of the case, and has not been considered by the court
• “both Indiana cases and the Seventh Circuit interpret [‘determinative of the case’] to mean dispositive of the case as a whole”
• emotional distress damages allowed in the case of an intentional tort which would foreseeably provoke an emotional disturbance of the kind normally to be aroused in the mind of a reasonable person

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).