State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Shaffer

How courts have described this case

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• holding that punitive damages did not arise “because of bodily injury,” even if the injury was the but-for cause of the punitive damage award
• both legislative intent and policy reasons do not support rendering exemplary damages against the insurer
• both legislative intent and policy reasons do not support rendering exemplary damages against the insurer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).