The conduct required by the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing is honesty in fact and the observance of reasonable commercial standards of fair dealing in the trade.
Mont. Code Ann. § 28-1-211
Implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 785 F. Supp. 1412 - Pennington's Inc. v. Brown-Forman Corp. (1991)
Most recently applied in 129 F. Supp. 3d 1190 - Blixseth v. Credit Suisse AG (September 2015)
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Official source: Montana Code Annotated (Montana Legislature). Reproduced from public-domain Montana statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.