Geico General Insurance Co. v. Harvey

GEICO General Insurance Company (GEICO) petitions for a writ of certiorari from a trial court order that denied its motion to dismiss defendant’s post-verdict erossclaim against it. GEICO argues that the trial court departed from the essential requirements of law by denying its motion to dismiss the defendant’s third party insurance bad faith action. We conclude that an insurance bad faith claim must be raised in a separate cause of action and cannot be brought in an underlying tort action. The denial of the motion to dismiss has the practical effect of preventing GEICO from removing this…