Rita Gonzales v. Southwest Radiology Association & Sam Lo, M.D.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that insurers have a duty to pay undisputed portions of a UIM claim, such as medical expenses, “even though other components of an insured’s claim may still be reasonably in dispute”
• stating that insurers have a duty not to unreasonably delay or deny payments of undisputed covered benefits
• stating that insurers have a duty not to unreasonably delay or deny payments of undisputed covered benefits
• section 10- 31115 imposes a duty on insurers to not “unreasonably delay or deny paying a covered benefit without a reasonable basis for doing so.”
• “[S]ection 10-3-1115’s plain language is clear, and it imposes the duty it says it imposes—that is, an insurer can’t unreasonably delay or deny paying a covered benefit without a reasonable basis for doing so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).