Homeowners Property & Casualty Insurance Co. v. Hurchalla

Petitioner, Homeowners Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. (the insurer), seeks certiorari review of a circuit court order that stayed its declaratory judgment action on insurance coverage pending resolution of an underlying tort action filed against the insured. We grant the petition because the trial court abused its discretion and departed from the essential requirements of law in staying the coverage action.

Respondents Lake Point Phase I, LLC and Lake Point Phase II, LLC (collectively, Lake Point) sued Margaret Hurehalla (Margaret), the South Florida Water Management District…