Pioneer Life Ins. Co. of Illinois v. Moss

How courts have described this case

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• \[T]he issue of punitive damages should not reach the jury [when] reasonable minds could differ as to the ... legitima[cy of the policy] claim.\
• case in which this Court reversed punitive-damages award because insurer's \failure to pay the claim ... was a mere clerical error and an honest mistake\
• Failure to thoroughly investigate and \cavalier treatment\ of the insured \cannot be said to be good faith dealing and certainly cannot give rise to a legitimate or arguable reason.\
• “If an insurance company has a legitimate reason or an arguable reason for failing to pay a claim, punitive damages will not lie.”
• \The fact that an insurance company lacks a legitimate or arguable reason for denying a claim does not automatically lead to the conclusion that the issue of punitive damages should be submitted to the jury. \

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).