MacOla v. Government Employees Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “In the event the insurer does not cure the alleged violation within the sixty-day period in section 624.155(3)(d), the claimant may proceed with the civil action for statutory bad faith.”
• “[T]he difference between first-party and third-party bad faith causes of action is critical.”
• “the essence of a third-party bad faith cause of action is to remedy a situation in which an insured is exposed to an excess judgment because of the insurer’s failure to properly or promptly defend the claim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).