Guarantee Abstract & Title Co. v. Interstate Fire & Casualty Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

McFarland, J.:

This is an action by Guarantee Abstract and Title Company against its insurer, Interstate Fire and Casualty Company, Inc., seeking damages for the insurer’s alleged mishandling of the defense of a third party action. The specific areas of claimed deficiency are failure to settle and failure to appeal.

The controversy herein is no stranger to our court. The original third party action which spawned the subsequent intramural litigation is Ford v. Guarantee Abstract & Title Co., 220 Kan. 244, 553 P.2d 254 (1976). The dispute over the defense…