Steil v. FLA. PHYSICIANS'INS. RECIPROCAL

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a settlement may not be enforced against the carrier if it is unreasonable in amount or tainted by bad faith, and adopting the two-part inquiry
• holding that in a case involving a consent judgment, a settle- ment can be enforced against the insurer so long as it is not “unreasonable in amount or tainted by bad faith”
• holding same and noting the general rule that where an insurer refuses to defend, its insured may obtain a reasonable settlement despite policy language to the contrary
• “By refusing to defend Steil’s claim, the carrier left Walker to his own devices to protect himself in the best way possible.”
• dynamics of Miller-Shugart settlements make settlement amount more suspect than in other consent settlements because a defendant with little to lose may agree to an inflated judgment amount in order to avoid personal liability
• suspicion of collusion and fraud led court to deny effect to settlement and assignment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

59 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Erika L. McNamara v. Government Employees Insurance Company
  Eleventh Circuit· 2022-04-05· cited 478×
• American Physicians Insurance Exchange v. Garcia
  Texas Supreme Court· 1994-06-08· cited 312×
• Kenneth M. Romstadt v. Allstate Insurance Company
  Sixth Circuit· 1995-07-17· cited 189×
• Glenn v. Fleming
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1990-09-28· cited 151×
• Greer v. Northwestern National Insurance
  Washington Supreme Court· 1987-10-08· cited 106×
• Red Giant Oil Co. v. Lawlor
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1995-03-29· cited 103×
• Perera v. United States Fidelity & Guaranty Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2010-05-06· cited 86×
• Chaussee v. Maryland Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1991-06-27· cited 77×
• Gulf Insurance Co. v. Noble Broadcast
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1997-01-21· cited 64×
• Miller v. Byrne
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1995-10-05· cited 63×
• Gainsco Insurance Co. v. Amoco Production Co.
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2002-08-19· cited 53×
• Campione v. Wilson
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1996-02-27· cited 53×
• Vernon Gray v. Grain Dealers Mutual Insurance Co.
  D.C. Circuit· 1989-04-04· cited 51×
• First American v. Nat. Union Fire Ins.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-11· cited 43×
• Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Wheelwright Trucking Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2002-11-27· cited 39×
• Kagele v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
  Court of Appeals of Washington· 1985-04-04· cited 36×
• Mid-Continent Casualty Co. v. Royal Crane, LLC
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-06-10· cited 36×
• Gallagher v. Dupont
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2005-12-09· cited 34×
• Sinni v. Scottsdale Insurance
  M.D. Florida· 2010-01-04· cited 31×
• Wachovia Ins. Services, Inc. v. Toomey
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-09-29· cited 28×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Miller v. Shugart
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1982-03-12· cited 303×
• Griggs v. Bertram
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1982-02-22· cited 175×
• Ralph E. Coblentz, as Administrator, D.B.N. Of the Estate of Edward Thomas Coblentz, Deceased v. American Surety Company of New York
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-10-10· cited 127×
• Metcalf v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Company
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1964-02-28· cited 88×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Paynter
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1979-04-10· cited 82×
• Stubblefield v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1973-12-20· cited 60×
• American Family Mutual Insurance v. Kivela
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-08-12· cited 59×
• Zander v. Texaco, Inc.
  California Court of Appeal· 1968-03-05· cited 41×
• Bendall v. White
  N.D. Alabama· 1981-04-23· cited 30×
• FLORIDA FARM BUR. MUT. INS. v. Rice
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1980-10-27· cited 29×
• Cunningham v. Austin Ford, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1966-07-12· cited 16×
• AMERICAN CAS. CO. OF PENN. v. Griffith
  Court of Appeals of Georgia· 1963-01-18· cited 15×
• Phoenix Assurance Co. of New York v. Hendry Corp.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1972-09-27· cited 11×
• Fidelity and Cas. Co. of New York v. Cope
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-01-20· cited 9×