holding that an agent, as a stranger to an insurance contract, cannot be held to breach an implied covenant of fair dealing
How later courts described this case
- holding that an agent, as a stranger to an insurance contract, cannot be held to breach an implied covenant of fair dealing
- holding Oklahoma Supreme Court did not clearly delineate digression from usual standard of proof in bad faith insurance claims
- rejecting an attempt to hold an agent liable for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing who was not a party to the contract between insurer and insured
- punitive damages held "partially the result of the combined impact of the several wrongful and willful acts of the defendants and combined effect of these items of evidence influencing] the jury ... [and] creating] an improper sympathetic response of a damages award larger than reason dictates to be necessary to deter such conduct.”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
IRWIN, C.J.,
concurs in part; dissents in part:
I dissent as to the sufficiency of the remittitur.