Sichel v. UNUM Provident Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that there is no independent cause of action for bad faith breach of contract under New York law
• dismissing NYGBL § 349 claim stating “[t]hey simply take the facts of [the plaintiff]’s second claim and assert that the defendants do this all the time. There is no factual support offered for this allegation.”
• granting the defendants’ motion to dismiss a claim of fraud on grounds that the plaintiff failed to allege a tort independent of his contract claim, where the plaintiff alleged that the defendants conspired to frustrate his insurance claim
• ‘New York law precludes fraud actions where the only fraud charged relates to a breach of contract.’’

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).