Pickett v. Lloyd's

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “an insurance company may be liable to a policyholder for bad faith in the context of paying benefits under a policy. The scope of that duty is not to be equated with simple negligence.”
• observing that a claim for bad faith refusal to pay is not sustainable if insured cannot establish coverage
• holding that insurers owe a duty of good faith in processing first- 2 The parties have consented to the Undersigned’s jurisdiction over this motion pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 636(c). See Consent Order, May 15, 2020, D.E. 32. 5 party claims
• finding that “an insurance company owes a duty of good faith to its insured in processing a first-party claim”
• explaining that bad faith is “not mere mishandling of an account but rather knowledge that no reason [for denying the claim] existed”
• recognizing that “an insurance company owes a duty of good faith to its insured in processing a first-party claim” but that “to sustain a claim for punitive damages, a plaintiff would have to show something other than a breach of the good-faith obligation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).