United American Ins. Co. v. Brumley

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that “the classification of insurance companies as the sole potential defendants in bad faith actions is reasonable”
• involving a factual dispute between the plaintiff and the insurer as to whether the insurer had received notice of the claim and, thus, as to whether the insurer had intentionally failed to sufficiently investigate the claim
• it would frustrate the purpose of the bad faith action to allow an insurer to prevent a bad faith claim from going to the jury by misrepresenting the content of oral or written communications
• policy 9 considerations, including unequal bargaining position and the insured’s heightened vulnerability, “uniquely fit the insurance industry, so the classification of insurance companies as the sole potential defendants in bad faith actions is reasonable”
• policy 9 considerations, including unequal bargaining position and the insured’s heightened vulnerability, “uniquely fit the insurance industry, so the classification of insurance companies as the sole potential defendants in bad faith actions is reasonable”
• policy 9 considerations, including unequal bargaining position and the insured’s heightened vulnerability, “uniquely fit the insurance industry, so the classification of insurance companies as the sole potential defendants in bad faith actions is reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).