State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. v. Slade

How courts have described this case

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• holding that Alabama law \limit[ed] bad-faith liability to those cases in which the insured is entitled to benefits under the policy\
• holding that insurance agent = s statement that policy was A all-risk, full-coverage-on-everything @ on policy that contained exclusion was not misrepresentation and did not mean there were no exclusions in policy
• noting that bad-faith liability is limited to those cases in which the insured is entitled to benefits under the policy
• holding that plaintiffs could not have relied on insurance agent’s statements about quality of insurance policy because the “statements amounted to nothing more than mere ‘puffery,’ in light of [plaintiffs’] level of education and degree of sophistication”
• noting that bad-faith liability is limited to those cases in which the insured is entitled to benefits under the policy
• noting that bad-faith liability is limited to those cases in which the insured is entitled to benefits under the policy

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