Morales v. Barnett

CRAWLEY, Presiding Judge.

In June 2003, Francina Morales was injured when she was struck by an automobile driven by Robert Shorter. In February 2004, Morales sued Shorter, seeking a total of $175,000 in damages; she also sued Safeway Insurance Companies of Alabama, Inc., Shorter’s insurance company, alleging bad-faith refusal to pay her claim. Safeway was later dismissed as a defendant, and Shorter died during the course of the litigation, resulting in the substitution of Luneal Barnett, as administrator of the estate of Robert Shorter, as a defendant. After a jury trial, at which the jury…