Allis-Chalmers Corp. v. Lueck

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1985-04-16

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Justice Blackmun delivered the opinion of the Court. The Wisconsin courts have made the bad-faith handling of an insurance claim a tort under state law. Those courts have gone further and have applied this tort to the handling of a claim under a disability plan included in a collective-bargaining agreement. The question before us is whether, in the latter ca…

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