O'Connor v. National Union Fire Insurance

¶1 By order dated December 26, 2002, and pursuant to Rule 44, M.R.App.P., the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit certified two questions to this Court. We accepted the certified questions by order dated January 7, 2003. Pursuant to Rule 44(d), M.R.App.P., we reformulate and address the following certified question:

¶2 For statute oflimitations purposes, do statutory and common law bad faith claims against an insurer, predicated on actions taken in the adjustment of a workers’ compensation claim, accrue when the Montana Workers’ Compensation Court enters a judgment which…