Tadlock Painting Co. v. Maryland Cas. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “a bad faith action exists separately from an action in contract,” and explaining that “the benefits due an insured are not limited solely by those expressly set out in the contract”
• recognizing a cause of action for an insurance company’s bad faith handling of third party benefits and holding that a bad faith claim may exist even in the absence of the breach of an express contractual provision
• stating that the South Carolina Court of Appeals upheld the trial court’s dismissal of the negligence action because the basis of it was breach of the contract, and the law is well-settled that breach of contractual duties does not give rise to an action in tort for negligence
• “The duty of good faith and fair dealing is such a duty that arises by operation of law due to the special relationship of the parties in an insurance contract____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).