The First Liberty Insurance Corporation v. Johanna O'Neill and Willie J. Anderson

The insurer appeals from: (1) the circuit court’s partial final judgment for the insured on her uninsured motorist claim after the insurer tendered its policy limits; and (2) the court’s simultaneous order grahting the insured’s motion td amend the complaint to add a first-party bad faith claim. We treat the appeal as a petition for a writ of certiorari and deny the petition. .

We deny the petition because the circuit court’s decisions — at the time of its decisions — did not constitute a departure from the essential requirements of the law. See Custer Med. Ctr. v. United Auto. Ins. Co., 62…