Legal Opinion
Scottsdale Insurance Company and Wells Trucking, Inc. v. Addison Insurance Company and United Fire & Casualty Company
Supreme Court of Missouri
Decided December 9, 2014No. SC93792PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPatricia Breckenridge, Judge
Wells Trucking, Inc., and its excess insurer, Scottsdale Insurance Company, filed suit against Wells Tracking’s primary insurer, United Fire & Casualty Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Addison Insurance Company, (collectively United Fire), asserting United Fire acted in bad faith in refusing to settle within its policy limits a wrongful death action against Wells Trucking. Scottsdale pleaded alternative theories allowing it to raise the bad faith refusal to settle claim, including: (1) assignment from Wells Trucking; (2) conventional subrogation; (3) equitable subro-gation; and (4) a…
2Cases cited58 opinions
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- Comunale v. Traders & General InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1958
- Gray v. Nationwide Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
- DiMarzo v. American Mutual InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1983
- Renaissance Leasing, LLC v. Vermeer Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of Missouri · 2010
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