Harris v. Harris

Opinion

NICHOLSON, J.

Although this is an appeal from an order of the probate court, it relates to three different actions; (1) the probate action, (2) a negligence action against the administrator of the estate of the deceased, and (3) a bad faith action against Travelers Property Casualty Insurance Company for refusing to defend the administrator in the negligence action and indemnify the administrator for the judgment in the negligence action. Travelers seeks to assert, as a defense in the bad faith action, that the failure of plaintiffs in the negligence action to file a timely claim with…