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FARMERS GROUP, INC. v. TRIMBLE

No. 82SC358.

691 P.2d 1138 (1984)

FARMERS GROUP, INC., a California corporation, Farmers Insurance Exchange, a California corporation, and Mid-Century Insurance Company, a California corporation, Petitioners, v. R. Bruce TRIMBLE, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Colorado, En Banc.

December 10, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rector, Retherford, Mullen & Johnson, J. Stephen Mullen, Neil C. Bruce, Colorado Springs, for petitioners.

Pryor, Carney & Johnson, Thomas L. Roberts, W. Randolph Barnhart, Englewood, for respondent.

Wood, Ris & Hames, P.C., Peter W. Burg, Denver, for amicus curiae, Colorado Defense Lawyers Ass'n.

ERICKSON, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to consider whether evidence of intentional conduct is necessary to establish the tort of bad faith breach of an insurance contract. The court of appeals stated in Farmers Group, Inc. v. Trimble, 658 P.2d 1370 (Colo.App.1982), that to prevail on a claim of bad faith breach of an insurance contract, an insured must establish the absence of any reasonable basis for the conduct complained...

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