Pierce v. International Ins. Co. of Ill.

How courts have described this case

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

• damages for emotional distress are not available for the violation of the duty of good faith in contract, but must be sought in tort law
• “[W]hen the bad faith actions of an insurer are taken with a reckless indifference or malice toward the plight of the [insured], punitive damages are justified.”
• permitting contract-based bad faith claim based on delayed compensation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).