Slider v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

MeGRAW, Chief Justice.

Diana and Randy Slider, plaintiffs below and appellants herein, appeal the September 8, 2000 order of the Circuit Court of Ohio County granting summary judgment to defendants-appellees State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”), Charles Noffsinger, and Erie Insurance Property and Casualty Company (“Erie”). The circuit court determined that the bad faith and intentional tort claims asserted by plaintiffs in the instant case, which are predicated upon defendants’ alleged misconduct in making settlement under first-party underin-surance coverage, were…