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

No. 91-3213.

958 F.2d 340 (1992)

Anna Rue CAMP and John E. Venn, as Trustee of the Estate of Fariss D. Kimbell, Jr., M.D., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ST. PAUL FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 16, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Estess, Kerrigan, Estess, Rankin & McLeod, Pensacola, Fla., and Talbot D'Alemberte, and Adalber to Jordan, Steel, Hector & Davis, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Elmo R. Hoffman, J. Scott Murphy, Orlando, Fla., William James Reedy, G.H. Small, Jr., Small & White, Atlanta, Ga., and J. Dixon Bridgers, III, Carlton, Fields, Ward, Emmanuel, Smith & Cutler, P.A., Pensacola, Fla., for defendant-appellee.

Before KRAVITCH, ANDERSON and BIRCH, Circuit Judges.


BIRCH, Circuit Judge:

This diversity case involves the intersection of insurance bad faith law and bankruptcy law. The defendant, St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company ("St. Paul"), is the insurer of Dr. Fariss Kimbell, a neurosurgeon who became bankrupt in late 1986. After the bankruptcy, Dr. Kimbell was found liable for medical malpractice in his treatment of plaintiff Anna Rue Camp. The jury returned a verdict of more than three million dollars, well in excess...

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