Corrente v. Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the appeal of Fitchburg Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Fitchburg) from a judgment entered in the Superior Court in favor of Barbara Corrente (Corrente) in the sum of $16,650 (together with statutory interest in the sum of $10,989, making a total judgment of $27,639) in compensatory damages for theft loss, and $25,000 in punitive damages as a result of alleged bad faith on the part of Fitchburg in settling this claim. We reverse and remand. The facts of the case insofar as pertinent to this appeal are as follows.

On December 21, 1979,…