Legal Opinion
Mission Insurance v. Aetna Life & Casualty Co.
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided May 10, 1988No. Civ. A. 85-4899Published
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MENTZ, District Judge.
This suit involves a claim by an excess insurer, Mission Insurance Company (Mission), against a primary insurer, Aetna Life and Casualty Company (Aetna), for sums that Mission paid to Joyce Fernandez, a plaintiff in a personal injury action tried in Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. Mission alleges that Aetna arbitrarily, negligently, and in bad faith failed to evaluate, negotiate, and settle Fernandez’s claim within its primary policy limits thereby exposing Mission to excess liability.
The Mission suit was tried to the…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Geoffrey Raymond Peter Norman Valentine v. Aetna Insurance Company, Geoffrey Raymond Peter Norman Valentine v. Continental Casualty Company, Geoffrey Raymond Peter Norman Valentine v. Royal Globe Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1977
- Cousins v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co.Louisiana Court of Appeal · 1974
- Younger v. Lumbermens Mutual Casualty CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1965
- Bohn v. Sentry InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. Louisiana · 1988
- Pacific Employers Insurance v. United General InsuranceDistrict Court, W.D. Louisiana · 1987
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