Zilisch v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that insurer’s “belief in fair debatability is a question of fact to be 15 determined by the jury” (internal quotation omitted)
• explaining that a failure to investigate adequately can constitute bad faith
• stating that a bad-faith claim exists when an “insurer ‘intentionally denies, fails to process or pay a claim without a reasonable basis’” (quoting Noble v. Nat’l Am Life Ins. Co., 128 Ariz. 188, 624 P.2d 866, 868 (1981))
• explaining that a failure to investigate adequately can constitute bad faith
• explaining that a failure to investigate adequately can constitute bad faith
• affirming summary judgment where insurer reasonably relied on 27 an exclusion and the operative facts were simple and not in dispute

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).