SHS Investment v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that Rule 9(b) applies “to all averments of fraud, whether they are part of a claim of fraud or ... statutory claims based on allegations of fraud” and collecting cases
• stating that standard for claims under either subsection is the same as standard for common law claim for breach of insurer’s duty of good faith and fair dealing
• dismissing claims that were “largely composed of legal conclusions couched as factual allegations, formulaic recitations of the elements of a cause of action, generic paraphrases of statutory language, and conclusory statements without supporting facts”
• “causes of action arising under DTPA . . . or common law fraud must satisfy Rule 9(b)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).