Citizens Property Insurance Corp., etc. v. Perdido Sun Condominium Association, Inc., etc.

The issue in this case is whether the Florida Legislature intended Citizens Property Insurance Corporation, a state-created entity that provides property insurance, to be liable for statutory first-party bad faith claims as an exception to its statutory immunity from suit. The First District Court of Appeal in Perdido Sun Condominium Ass’n v. Citizens Property Insurance Corp., 129 So.3d 1210 (Fla. 1st DCA 2014), determined that the “willful tort” statutory exception to Citizens’ immunity applied to statutory first-party bad faith claims and certified conflict with the Fifth District Court of…