CLAY v. PRUDENTIAL INS. CO. OF AMERICA

No. 94-3291.

670 So.2d 1153 (1996)

Deborah K. CLAY, whose married name is Deborah K. Ford, Appellant, v. The PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L.T. Case No. 86-301-CA.

Robert Lee Dennis, Okeechobee, for appellant.

Paul H. Field of Lane, Reese, Aulickk, Summers & Field, P.A., Miami, for appellee.


KLEIN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals a defense verdict rendered in a case in which she alleged that the defendant insurer was in bad faith for delaying the payment of benefits under a life insurance policy on her husband. Although plaintiff agreed that the jury could be instructed that the "fairly debatable" standard was to be used in determining whether an insurer is in bad faith, she now argues that she should be given a new trial because our supreme court subsequently...

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