McGuire v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

STEAGALL, Justice.

Plaintiff, Harvey Bevin McGuire, appeals from a summary judgment entered in favor of the defendant, State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”), on McGuire’s claims alleging a bad faith refusal to pay insurance benefits and a bad faith failure to investigate his claim.

On March 23, 1987, the Gap of the Mountain Volunteer Fire Department (“Fire Department”) received a call that a neighboring fire department needed assistance extinguishing a woods fire in Chilton County. McGuire, who was the rescue chief for the Fire Department, received the call on his Fire…