Washington v. Government Employees Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• allowing plaintiff to amend complaint to add IIED claim based on denial of insurance claim and reserving decision as to whether denial of claim rose to level of willful tort
• “District of Columbia law does not recognize the tort of bad faith denial of an insurance claim.”
• District of Columbia does not recognize bad faith in either third-party or first-party context
• punitive damages available in breach of contract action “where a breach of contract merges with and assumes the character of a wil[l]ful tort, calculated rather than inadvertent, flagrant, and in disregard of obligations of trust.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).