· 7/28/1997
Peiffer v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.
Citations
- 940 P.2d 967
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- noting that a jury may consider if conduct violated UCSPA
- “An insurer’s decision . . . must be evaluated based on the information before the insurer at the time of that decision.”
- jury may consider if conduct violated Unfair Claims Settlement Practices Act (“UCSPA”)
- while “an expert witness [in bad faith case] should not dictate the law that the jury should apply, an expert witness is permitted, in the trial court’s discretion, to refer to the facts of the case in legal terms”
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Judges: Metzger, Criswell, Erickson
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