Hawkinson v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.

TIMOTHY J. CORRIGAN, United States District Judge

The issue of whether an insurance bad faith claim, joined by amendment to the underlying coverage action, may be removed more than a year after the original action began has divided my colleagues, and the Eleventh Circuit has not weighed in. I must now take a side. The case is before the Court on Plaintiff Jennifer Ann Hawkinson's Motion to Remand (Doc. 6), to which Defendant State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company filed a response (Doc. 7).1

*1295I. BACKGROUND2

On April 24, 2012, nineteen year old Hawkinson was a passenger in a car when it was…