Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. v. Cook

Full title: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, A FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANY, PETITIONER…

Court: District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District

Date published: Jul 2, 1997

696 So. 2d 497 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1997)

Opinion

Case No. 97-482

Opinion filed July 2, 1997.

A Writ of Certiorari to the Circuit Court for Dade County, Thomas S. Wilson, Jr., Judge.

Ribler, Gilmartin Sanchez; Russo Talisman and Kimberly L. Boldt, for petitioner.

William K. Crispin (Homestead), for respondents.

Before NESBITT, LEVY, and GODERICH, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

The order below, which refused to stay a bad faith claim against the carrier pending the resolution of an underlying coverage dispute, is quashed. See Blanchard v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 575 So.2d 1289 (Fla. 1991; Utah Home Fire Ins. Co. v. Navarro, 642 So.2d 1200 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994); Michigan Millers Mut. Ins. Co. v. Bourke, 581 So.2d 1368 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991).

Certiorari granted.