HIGH COUNTRY ARTS AND CRAFT v. HARTFORD FIRE INS.

No. 96-2670.

126 F.3d 629 (1997)

HIGH COUNTRY ARTS AND CRAFT GUILD, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided October 17, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Donald Lee Craig, Butler, Burnette & Pappas, Tampa, FL, for Appellant. Edward Glenn Kelly, James Gary Rowe, Kelly & Rowe, P.A., Asheville, NC, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Gary S. Parsons, John M. Kirby, Bailey & Dixon, L.L.P., Raleigh, NC; George W. Hendon, Martin K. Reidinger, Adams, Hendon, Carson, Crow & Saenger, P.A., Asheville, NC, for Appellant.

Before WIDENER and NIEMEYER, Circuit Judges, and MICHAEL, Senior United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


Affirmed by published opinion. Judge NIEMEYER wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Senior Judge MICHAEL joined.

OPINION

NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge:

The jury returned a verdict against Hartford Fire Insurance Company, finding that it breached its policy of insurance in refusing to pay the fire loss claims of its insured, High Country Arts and Craft Guild, and that it did so in bad faith. Hartford now challenges certain posttrial rulings of the...

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