Shepherd v. State Auto Property & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that purpose of statute is to penalize insurers for utilizing vexatious delay tactics
• court held that a provision of UIM policy calling for setoff for workers’ compensation benefits was against public policy
• “The allowance of the statutory penalty and attorneys’ fees is penal in nature and a procedural matter.”
• “We view voluntary payment of a judgment amount assessed against a party as entirely inconsistent with a subsequent appeal directly related to that payment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).