McCall v. Allstate Insurance

Hill, Chief Justice.

This certiorari involves the rights of an insured injured by an uninsured motorist and the obligations of her insurance company. The issue in this case, and thus the question on which certiorari was *870granted, is “Whether, under an uninsured motorist policy provision, an insurer may be liable for recovery in excess of the policy limits or, alternatively, for bad faith refusal to pay a claim, where prior to trial the insured offered to settle for less than the policy limits, the insurer refused the offer and the jury returned a verdict in an amount well in excess of the…