Simmons v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that where plaintiff alleges defendant breached “duty of good faith and fair dealing by denying first party benefits under an insurance policy, said claim is subsumed by the plaintiffs breach of insurance contract claim premised on the same conduct ” (emphasis added)
• dismissing a count of the complaint alleging breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing as \redundant and unnecessary\ in light of other counts alleging breach of contract
• “Compensatory damages are available under Pennsylvania’s common law of contracts, even where the action is brought under a bad faith theory.”
• “... Pennsylvania law does not recognize a separate breach of contractual duty of good faith and fair dealing where said claim is subsumed by a separately pled breach of contract claim”
• “... Pennsylvania law does not recognize a separate breach of contractual duty of good faith and fair dealing where said claim is subsumed by a separately pled breach of contract claim”

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