State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Pritchard

STUART, Justice.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company (“State Farm”) petitioned this Court for certiorari review of the Court of Civil Appeals’ decision affirming the trial court’s judgment ordering State Farm to pay an attorney fee based on a common-fund theory for the recovery of the moneys advanced by State Farm to James Ross Pritchard, Jr., pursuant to Lambert v. State Farm, Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., 576 So.2d 160 (Ala. 1991). We reverse and remand.

Facts and Procedural History

Pritchard sued Broderick McCants, State Farm (Pritchard’s uninsured/under-insured-motorist (“UIM”)…