White v. Northwestern Bell Telephone Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that the bad faith tort is recognized in insurance contracts and the reason for the tort involves unequal bargaining power
• prohibiting a finding of first-party bad faith where a party breached a workers’ compensation settlement agreement
• stating punitive damages may be awarded for a breach of contract upon proving: “(1) that the breach also consti tutes an intentional tort, and (2) that the breach was committed maliciously ...” in a manner contemplated by Iowa statute
• suit on workers’ compensation settlement agreement properly brought in district court, not in workers’ compensation proceeding, as commissioner had no jurisdiction
• “Generally a breach of contract, even if intentional, will be insufficient to support a punitive damage award.”
• “The court’s first ground appears to be based on a finding of bad faith on the part of U.S. West.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).