SCOTTSDALE INS. CO. v. ADDISON INS. CO.

No. SC 93792.

448 S.W.3d 818 (2014)

SCOTTSDALE INSURANCE COMPANY and Wells Trucking, Inc., Appellants, v. ADDISON INSURANCE COMPANY and United Fire & Casualty Company, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

Opinion issued December 9, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scottsdale and Wells trucking were represented by Kenneth M. Lander of Kortenhof McGlynn & Burns LLC in St. Louis, and Alan B. Yuter of Selman Breitman LLP in Los Angeles.

Addison Insurance and United Fire were represented by John G. Schultz , Jill Smith and Suzanne R. Bruss of Franke Schultz & Mullen PC in Kansas City, and John W. Grimm and John C. Steffans of The Limbaugh Firm in Cape Girardeau.

The Missouri Association of Trial Attorneys, which filed a brief as a friend of the Court, was represented by Tim Dollar and Tom Hershewe of Dollar, Burns & Becker LC in Kansas City, and Kirk R. Presley and Sean Brown of Presley and Presley LLC in Kansas City.


Wells Trucking, Inc., and its excess insurer, Scottsdale Insurance Company, filed suit against Wells Trucking's primary insurer, United Fire & Casualty Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Addison Insurance Company, (collectively United Fire), asserting United Fire acted in bad faith in refusing to settle within...

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