United States Eleventh Circuit
Macola v. Government Employees Ins. Co., 04-10436
In bad faith action against defendant insurer, summary judgment for defendant is reversed where: 1) Florida statutes section 624.155(3)(d)'s provision of a cure for bad faith did not apply to third party actions like this one; and 2) an insurer's tender of the policy limits to an insured in response to the filing of a civil remedy notice under section 624.155 by the insured does not preclude a common law cause of action against the insurer for third-party bad faith.
Appellate Information
- Decided 04/11/2007
- Published 04/11/2007
Judges
- PER CURIAM:, Before ANDERSON and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and OWENS, District Judge.
Court
- United States Eleventh Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Shea T. Moxon, Swope, Rondante, P.A., Paul T. Cardillo, Law Firm of Paul Cardillo, P.A., Tampa, FL, Roy D. Wasson, Wasson & Associates, Miami, FL, for Appellants., Philip M. Burlington, Burlington & Rockenbach, P.A., Janis Brustares Keyser, Cochran, Heath, Lyles & Mauro, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Amici Curiae.
- For Appellees:
- Raymond A. Haas, Haas, Dutton, Blackburn, Lewis & Longley, Tampa, FL, B. Richard Young, Young, Bill, Fugett & Roumbos, P.A., Stephen Dennis Gill, Conroy, Simberg, Ganon, Krevans & Abel, P.A., Pensacola, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.