Legal Opinion
Emmanuil Moutsopoulos v. American Mutual Insurance Company of Boston, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 1, 1979No. 78-1870PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The sole issue presented in this appeal is, once an insurance company’s liability for its bad faith refusal to settle a claim against its insured is established, whether the assignee of the insured’s cause of action against the insurer is entitled as a matter of law to recover damages equal to the excess judgment entered against the insured.
In October 1969 a Chicago and Northwestern Transportation Company (C&NW) train collided with an automobile owned and operated by Ann Holbus at a railroad crossing in Racine, Wisconsin. Emmanuil Moutsopoulos, a switchman…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Anderson v. Continental InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1978
- Crisci v. Security InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1967
- Gray v. Nationwide Mutual InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1966
- Hilker v. Western Automobile InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1931
- Brown v. Guarantee InsuranceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1957
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- Charles E. Steele, Individually and as Guardian of the Estate of Charles E. Steele, Jr. v. The Hartford Fire Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1986
- Pension Fund-Mid Jersey Trucking Industry-Local 701 v. Omni Funding GroupDistrict Court, D. New Jersey · 1990
- Anthony Voccio and Domenic Voccio v. Reliance Insurance Companies, Anthony Voccio and Domenic Voccio v. Reliance Insurance CompaniesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
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