Wilder v. Aetna Life & Casualty Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “[t]he business of insurance is clearly within commerce”
• no private right of action for violation of Insurance Trade Practices Act where Legislature provided public administrative sanctions
• private action under 9 V.S.A. § 2461(b) unavailable where plaintiff was not a purchaser of the alleged good or service
• “the selling of an insurance policy is not a contract for ‘goods or services’ 13 within the meaning of [the Act]”
• “The Consumer Fraud Act was created to protect citizens from unfair and deceptive acts in consumer transactions.”
• 8 V.S.A. § 4726 does not create a private right of action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).