The New Mexico Court of Appeals had concluded that there was a real distinction between the bad faith sufficient to prove a simple breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing for an award of compensatory damages and the bad faith sufficient to sustain an award of punitive damages. Recently the New Mexico Supreme Court clarified when an instruction on punitive damages must be given in an insurance bad faith case. The court\u27s analysis is noteworthy for the effort to clarify the standards for both first and third patty bad faith. Finally, the court rewrote UJI Civil 13-1718 to comport with its decision
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This Article represents the first empirical study of the effects of bad-faith laws on claims decisio...
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The attempt by California voters to reform the insurance industry by passing Proposition 103 was wel...
This paper analyzes the effects of the Royal Globe doctrine (increased insurance bad faith liabilit...
Insurers may at times exploit the delay inherent in the civil litigation process to induce needy ins...
This article discusses the approaches to first-party insurance bad-faith law that have been taken b...
In response to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court\u27s refusal to create a cause of action by an insured...
California courts have generally encouraged insurers to deal fairly with their customers. If the ins...
41 p. ; An outstanding student paper selected as a Honors Paper.With the introduction of the automob...
This article outlines the development of the tort of bad faith as it applies to insurance in Montana...
In Braesch v. Union Insurance Co., the Nebraska Supreme Court first recognized the tort of bad faith...
This article adds to a previous article from the summer 2000 issue of Trial Trends, which recounted ...
This Article represents the first empirical study of the effects of bad-faith laws on claims decisio...
For almost thirty years, courts have been experimenting with the tort of First-Party Bad Faith. As a...
This Article proposes to balance the scale by providing principles for the reasonable construction o...
This Article explores the common-law and statutory background of the tort of bad faith in first-part...
The theory of “bad faith” is by now well established in the areas of liability and casualty insuranc...
The attempt by California voters to reform the insurance industry by passing Proposition 103 was wel...
This paper analyzes the effects of the Royal Globe doctrine (increased insurance bad faith liabilit...
Insurers may at times exploit the delay inherent in the civil litigation process to induce needy ins...
This article discusses the approaches to first-party insurance bad-faith law that have been taken b...
In response to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court\u27s refusal to create a cause of action by an insured...
California courts have generally encouraged insurers to deal fairly with their customers. If the ins...