State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Nicholson

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that tort liability exists for “insurer’s bad faith failure to settle a first-party claim”
• holding insurance contracts are subject to tort action for breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing
• recognizing common law bad faith action against an insurer as a tort
• upholding compensatory damages for bad faith conduct while finding insufficient evidence to support award of punitive damages
• relying on Gruenberg v. Aetna Ins. Co., 9 Cal.3d 566, 108 Cal.Rptr. 480, 510 P.2d 1032 (1973)
• relying on Gruenberg v. Aetna Ins. Co., 9 Cal.3d 566, 108 Cal.Rptr. 480, 510 P.2d 1032 (1973)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).