Jerkins v. USF & G Specialty Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that insured was entitled to attorney’s fees under section 627.428 where “it appear[ed] that [the insurer] would not have paid [the insureds] the proper amount of the loss without judicial intervention”
• awarding the insured attorney’s fees where, following a “bona fide dispute” as to the amount of loss, the insured sued the insurer and the insurer thereafter participated in appraisal, leading to an award of attorney’s fees in favor of the insured
• “We review the trial court’s interpretation of a statute de novo.”
• “We review the trial court’s interpretation of a statute de novo.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).