State Farm Insurance Co. v. Ulrich

State Farm Florida Insurance Company petitions for a writ of certiorari from trial court orders that denied its motion to abate an insurance bad faith action and denied its motion for protective order from bad faith discovery. State Farm argues that respondents cannot maintain their first-party bad faith action because State Farm invoked the appraisal provision of the insurance policy and paid the appraisal award. State Farm further maintains that it cannot be liable in a statutory bad faith action under section 624.155(1)(b) 1., Florida Statutes (2012), unless there has been a determination…