State Farm Fire & Casualty Company a/s/o Kenneth Burkhart v. H.H. Niswander

OPINION

VAIDIK, Chief Judge.

Case Summary

State Farm appeals the trial court’s award of attorney’s fees against it for filing a groundless lawsuit. Before the filing of its complaint against H.H. Niswander, State Farm received a report from its experts about the cause and origin of the fire involved in this case. There was no evidence in the report that H.H. Niswan-der was negligent or caused the fire. For two-and-a-half years, State Farm continued to litigate its claim against H.H. Nis-wander requiring it to incur attorney’s fees. Even after State Farm’s expert at a deposition testified that…