HOME INS. CO. v. OWENS

Nos. 88-1990, 88-3344 and 89-0291.

573 So.2d 343 (1990)

HOME INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, v. Albert OWENS and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing and Certification Denied February 19, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Beranek of Aurell, Radey, Hinkle & Thomas, Tallahassee, and Solomon, Murphy & Cote, P.A., Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Edna L. Caruso of Edna L. Caruso, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Roland Gomez of the Law Office of Roland Gomez, Miami Lakes, for appellee-Albert Owens.


LETTS, Judge.

This appeal involves a first party claim by an insured against his insurer for bad faith refusal to settle. Among other issues raised by the insurer, unsuccessful at the trial level, is that evidence relevant to the insurer's pleadings denying coverage should have been inadmissible and that the jury verdict for punitive damages was in error. We affirm.

This matter had as its genesis an automobile accident in which the insured was horribly injured...

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