Scott Wetzel Services, Inc. v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2022
2 federal appellate · 3 district · 18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Travelers Insurance Co. v. Savio · Farmers Group, Inc. v. Trimble · State Ex Rel. William Ranni Associates, Inc. v. Hartenbach · Continental Bus System, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board · Governor's Ranch Professional Center, Ltd. v. Mercy of Colorado, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The duty of good faith and fair dealing owed by insurers and self-insurers to workers' compensation claimants is rooted in the Act. The regulations promulgated under the Act specifically contemplate the use of claims administration services by self-insured employers as an important part of the scheme for delivery of workers' compensation benefits.... [[Image here]] The self-insurer regulatory scheme therefore specifically envisions the use of independent claims administration services to provide benefits.... The role of a claims adjusting service, therefore, derives not solely from its contract with the self-insured employer, but is based on statute and regulation as part of the benefit-delivery process.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen a third-party administrator performs many of the tasks of an insurance company and bears some of the financial risk of loss for the claim, the administrator has a duty of good faith and fair dealing to the insured in the investigation and servicing of the insurance claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.