Poling v. Motorists Mutual Insurance

NEELY, Justice.

This case presents three certified questions from the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia that concern insurance bad faith. Because it appears to the federal court that there is no controlling precedent on these issues, the federal court requests that the following questions be answered:(1) Whether the settlement of the underlying tort case against the tortfeasor precludes a separate and independent recovery against the tortfeasor’s insurer arising out of its alleged bad faith insurance practices when the third-party plaintiff made a…