Kimbrough v. Safeway Insurance Co. of Alabama

MOORE, Chief Justice.

Safeway Insurance Company of Alabama, Inc. (“Safeway”), petitions this Court for a writ of mandamus directing the Jackson Circuit Court to grant Safeway’s Rule 12(b)(1), Ala. R. Civ. P., motion to dismiss a bad-faith claim against it for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction. For reasons explained below, we deny the petition.

I. Facts and Procedural History

Richard Thomas Kimbrough alleges that, on November 19, 2011, a deer ran across Jackson County Road 33, causing a truck in the southbound lane to swerve into the northbound lane, where Kim-brough was driving. According to…