United Fire Insurance v. McClelland

How courts have described this case

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• holding that to impose punitive damages, Nevada law requires an insurer to act with “oppression, fraud or malice”
• holding that a jury question as to an insurer’s bad faith arises “when facts permit differing inferences as to the reasonableness of [the] insurer’s conduct”
• recognizing that the \valid[ity]\ of the new contract is essential to novation
• recognizing “the financial position of the defendant” as a factor in assessing a punitive damages award
• recognizing “the financial position of the defendant” as a factor in assessing a punitive damages award
• \[A] wife's coverage as a dependent under her husband's health insurance policy does not give her standing to enforce her husband's contract rights for bad faith denial of health care benefits.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).