Lloyd v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

OPINION

THOMPSON, Judge.

This appeal involves a third party insurance bad faith claim. Following our opinion in a previous appeal in this case, Lloyd v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 176 Ariz. 247, 860 P.2d 1300 (App.1992) (Lloyd I), the trial court ruled that we established, as law of the case, that there was no contract out of which a bad faith claim could arise. It granted the defendant-insurance company’s motion for summary judgment. We reverse. Contrary to the appellee’s argument, we did not decide that issue in the prior appeal. There is an insurance contract at the heart of this case…