MACOLA v. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INS. CO.

No. SC05-1021.

953 So.2d 451 (2006)

Michelle MACOLA, et al., Appellants, v. GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Florida.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shea T. Moxon, Angela E. Rodante, and Dale M. Swope of Swope and Rodante, P.A., Tampa, FL, and Roy D. Wasson of Wasson and Associates, Miami, FL, Paul T. Cardillo, Tampa, FL, and Lefferts L. Mabie, III, Tampa, FL, for Appellants.

B. Richard Young and Stephen D. Gill of Young, Bill, Fugett and Roumbos, P.A., Pensacola, FL, for Appellee.

Philip M. Burlington and Bard D. Rockenbach of Burlington and Rockenbach, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, on behalf of the Academy of Florida Trial Lawyers; Alyssa M. Campbell of Williams, Montgomery and John Ltd., Chicago, IL, on behalf of Property Casualty Insurers Association of America; Tracy R. Gunn of Fowler, White, Boggs, Banker, P.A., Tampa, FL, on behalf of Florida Defense Lawyers' Association; Paul L. Nettleton of Carlton Fields, P.A., Miami, FL, on behalf of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company; and Ronald L. Kammer and Andrew E. Grigsby of Hinshaw and Culbertson, LLP, Miami, FL, Laura A. Foggan, John C. Yang and Anthony E. Orr of Wiley, Rein and Fielding, LLP, Washington, D.C., on behalf of Complex Insurance Claims Litigation Association, as Amici Curiae.


PARIENTE, J.

We have for review two questions of Florida law certified by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.1 Because both appellants have filed only common law third-party bad faith causes of action, we rephrase the certified questions into a single question:

DOES THE TENDERING OF THE POLICY LIMITS BY AN INSURER IN RESPONSE TO THE FILING OF A CIVIL REMEDY NOTICE UNDER SECTION 624.155, FLORIDA STATUTES...

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