T & N PLC v. Pennsylvania Insurance Guaranty Ass'n

How courts have described this case

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• holding state association immune from suit for bad faith handling of claim
• defining ‘Insurer’ as “the underwriter or insurance company with whom a contract of insurance is made [and t]he one who assumes risk or underwrites a policy”
• stating “PIGA is a statutory entity that depends solely on the Insurance Guaranty Act for its existence and for a definition of the scope of its powers, duties and protections”
• guaranty fund “is a statutory entity that depends solely on the Insurance Guaranty Act for its existence and for a definition of the scope of its powers, duties and protections”
• PIGA not liable for bad faith damages under 42 Pa.C.S. §8371

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).