Geico General Insurance Company v. Kelly Paton

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a jury verdict in excess of policy limits fixes the amount of damages in a first-party bad faith action
• “Forcing retrial of a plaintiff’s damages at a first[-]party bad faith trial, as [defendant] urges, is such bad policy that we do not glean even a hint of its existence in any case the [Florida] Supreme Court has decided in this area.”
• “Forcing retrial of a plaintiff’s damages at a first party bad faith trial, as [defendant] urges, is such bad policy that we do not glean even a hint of its existence in any case the [Florida] Supreme Court has decided in this area.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).