Pavia v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• describing duty of insurer \in defending and settling claims over which it exercises exclusive control on behalf of its insured\ as one of \good faith\
• describing duty of insurer “in defending and settling claims over which it exercises exclusive control on behalf of its insured” as o0ne of “good faith”
• considering, for purposes of articulating a standard for bad-faith consequential damages, “the two-fold goal of protecting both the insured’s and the insurer’s financial interests” (emphasis added)
• reversing a jury finding of bad faith where plaintiffs’ allegations “stem[med] principally from defendant State Farm’s failure to abide by a settlement deadline unilaterally established by plaintiff Pavia’s counsel”
• “No pat formula applies to the wide variety of fact patterns that occur, or readily resolves whether an insurer acted in good faith.”
• “bad faith requires an extraordinary showing of a disingenuous or dishonest failure to carry out a contract”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).