Signature Development Companies, Inc. v. Royal Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that reserves and settlement authority do not necessarily constitute a final objective assessment of a claims' worth
• “We are also unwilling to infer that ‘settlement authority invariably 15 constitutes a final, objective assessment of a claim’s worth to which an insurer may be 16 held on penalty of bad faith.’” (citation omitted)
• “Compromise or settlement offers are not admissions of liability.”
• “Compromise or settlement offers are not admission of liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).