Prince v. Bear River Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• “Under Utah law, if an insurer denies an ‘insured’s claim [that] is fairly debatable, [then] the insurer is entitled to debate it and cannot be held to have breached the implied covenant if it chooses to do so.”
• “A ‘debatable reason,’ for purposes of determining whether [an] insurer may be subjected to bad-faith liability, means an arguable reason, a reason that is open to dispute or question,” (quoting 14 Lee R. Russ & Thomas F. Segalla, Couch on Ins, § 204:28 (3d ed. 1999)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).