Safeco Insurance Co. Of America v. William Guyton

How courts have described this case

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• dismissing policyholders’ bad faith claim because “there existed a 14 genuine issue as to [insurer’s] liability under California law”
• reversing decision applying flood exclusion to bar coverage for loss proximately caused by third-party negligence, but affirming district court’s dismissal of bad faith claim against insurer
• finding coverage for flood damage despite a flood exclusion in the policy because, had the negligently maintained flood control structures been properly maintained, they might not have collapsed when the flood struck them
• finding a genuine dispute over California insurance law about third-party negligence
• finding coverage for flood damage despite a flood exclusion in the policy because, had the negligently maintained flood control structures been properly maintained, they might not have collapsed when the flood struck them
• where a policy dispute involved a genuine legal issue concerning liability, insurer could not have been acting in bad faith by refusing to pay claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).