Radcliffe v. Franklin National Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• “Only a decision made by one who exercised due diligence in apprising himself of the material facts is entitled to respect as made in good faith.”
• “The foregoing New Hampshire decisions are good representatives of those which employ the negligence theory.”
• “Some courts employ the negligence or due care theory in determin- ing whether or not the insurer rendered itself liable to the insured when it dealt with a settlement matter.”
• “It will be observed that in the decision just reviewed the court held that actions based upon a negligently conducted defense may employ both the contract and the negligence theory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).