Legal Opinion
Jolley v. Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services Ltd.
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided June 17, 2010No. 32,032PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DANIELS, Chief Justice.
{1} This case comes to us on certification from the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico to determine whether the third-party bad faith cause of action against a compulsory automobile liability insurance carrier, for failure to settle an underlying lawsuit, which we recognized in Hovet v. Allstate Insurance Co., 2004-NMSC-010, 135 N.M. 397, 89 P.3d 69, should be extended to bad faith claims by third parties against carriers providing nonmandatory excess liability insurance coverage. We conclude that neither the holding nor the doctrinal…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Hovet v. Allstate InsuranceNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2004
- State v. NICK R.New Mexico Supreme Court · 2009
- State v. RowellNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2008
- Estep v. State Farm Mutual Automobile InsuranceNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1985
- State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Ballard Ex Rel. BallardNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2002
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3Cited by10 opinions
- Jordan v. Allstate InsuranceNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2010
- Diamond v. DiamondNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2012
- Whiting v. HoganDistrict Court, D. New Mexico · 2012
- Jolley v. AEGISNew Mexico Supreme Court · 2010
- State ex rel. Chidren, Youth & Families Department v. Djamila B.New Mexico Court of Appeals · 2014
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