ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INS. CO. v. WELSH

No. 85-1117.

501 So.2d 54 (1987)

ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant/Cross Appellee, v. Jack WELSH and Kay Welsh, and Lucy Bustillo and Angela Bustillo, Appellees/Cross Appellants.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

January 7, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gene Kubicki of Talburt, Kubicki & Bradley, Miami, Richard A. Sherman, Fort Lauderdale; and Nancy Little Hoffmann of Nancy Little Hoffmann, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant/cross appellee.

Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson Roth and Romano, P.A., and Larry Klein of Klein & Beranek, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellees/cross appellants-Welsh.

Reid & Ricca, P.A., and Edna L. Caruso of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, for appellees/cross appellants-Bustillo.


GUNTHER, Judge.

St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company (St. Paul) appeals a judgment entered in a bad faith action after a jury verdict in favor of its insureds, Jack and Kay Welsh, and a final judgment awarding attorney's fees in the amount of $425,000 in favor of the Welshes.

Angela Bustillo rented an apartment from Jack and Kay Welsh (Welshes) in Riviera Beach, Florida. On October 8, 1980, Lucy Bustillo, Angela's seventeen-year-old daughter, fell off...

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