[Download] "Bad Faith Breach of Contract in the Insurance Context and in the Oil and Gas Context: A Comparison." by Faulkner Law Review * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Bad Faith Breach of Contract in the Insurance Context and in the Oil and Gas Context: A Comparison.
- Author : Faulkner Law Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 313 KB
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PART I. THE INTRODUCTION In 2007, the Alabama Supreme Court issued Exxon Mobile Corporation v. Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; a fifty-one page opinion that begins like a chemical engineering textbook with vocabulary including slop oil, diamondoids, cogenerated electricity, flare offs, and sweetened sour gasses. The complex thirty-four volume transcript (1) and a jury award that was the largest punitive damages award in Alabama's history (2) made one justice wishfully consider handing-off the decision to the Rotary Club (3) whose simple Code of Ethics would ask only whether Exxon was an honest, fair, and friendly corporation and did it seek the benefit of all concerned? (4)