# Timmons v. Royal Globe Insurance Co.

> Supreme Court of Oklahoma · July 27, 1982 · 653 P.2d 907

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9552670

## Case

- **Full name:** John D. TIMMONS, Appellee, v. ROYAL GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY, D/B/A Royal Indemnity Company, a Foreign Corporation, and David Sowards, an Individual, Appellants
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Oklahoma
- **Decided:** July 27, 1982
- **Citations:** 653 P.2d 907; 1982 OK 97; 1982 Okla. LEXIS 286
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Irwin
- **Judges:** Hargrave, Irwin, Barnes, Hodges, Lavender, Simms, Doolin, Opala, Wilson
- **Cited by:** 117 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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

## Opinion text

IRWIN, C.J.,
concurs in part; dissents in part:
I dissent as to the sufficiency of the remittitur.

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