Smith v. General Accident Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an insurer acted in bad faith by failing to keep the insured informed of settlement negotiations
• “[A]n insurer ordinarily has no unqualified duty to inform its insured of settlement offers such that the failure to do so establishes liability as matter of law.”
• liability insurer’s failure to keep its insured informed of settlement offers in excess of its policy can constitute some evidence that it acted in bad faith in refusing to settle the claim
• insurer’s failure to inform insured of settlement offers evidenced bad faith

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).