Stubblefield v. St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• characterizing settlement agreement which failed to impose detriment on insured as unconscionable and void for lack of consideration
• characterizing settlement agreement which failed to impose detriment on insured as unconscionable and void for lack of consideration
• even where covenant not to execute existed separate and apart from consent judgment, insurer was not liable for any amount that the insured was not “legally obligated” to pay plaintiff
• even where covenant not to execute existed separate and apart from consent judgment, insurer was not liable for any amount that the insured was not \legally obligated\ to pay plaintiff
• assignment to plaintiff of all sums in excess of $5,000 due was the limit of insured’s obligation under insurance policy
• when settlement agreement relieved insured doctor of obligation to pay any amount in excess of $5,000 to plaintiff, the assignment by doctor to plaintiff of all claims against insurer in excess of $5,000 conferred on plaintiff no enforceable rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).