Top Service Body Shop, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that im proper means “may be -wrongful by reason of a statute or other regulation, or a recognized rule of common law, or perhaps an established standard of a trade or profession.”
• holding that, in the context of the tort of intentional interference with economic relations, this court had held that a defendant’s liability “may arise from improper motives or from the use of improper means”
• holding that, in the context of the tort of inten- tional interference with economic relations, this court had held that a defendant’s liability “may arise from improper motives or from the use of improper means”
• holding that evidence of acts that were “wholly consistent” with the defendant’s “pursuit of its own business purposes as it saw them” did “not suffice to support an inference of the alleged improper purpose to injure” the plaintiff
• looking to text and comments in Restatement for assistance in formulating and applying tort of intentional interference with economic relations
• explaining the tort requires an allegation that the defendant caused a third person not to enter into or continue a business relation with another

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).