Rast v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of New York

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that under California law “[i]f the insurer did not act in bad faith, punitive damages are unavailable”
• stating that “[i]f the insurer did not act in bad faith, punitive damages are unavailable”
• applying California law and finding a genuine dispute whether \sport or athletic contest/event\ language included bungee jumping
• “If the insurer did not act in bad faith, punitive damages are unavailable . . . ”
• “If the insurer did not act in bad faith, 3 punitive damages are unavailable”
• “[A]t the time that the district court was first confronted with the jurisdictional issue, there was no ‘parallel state proceeding’ in the state trial court to create a presumption that the case should be heard in state court.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).