Hoekstra v. Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co.

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

Defendant Farm Bureau Insurance Company has appealed from a judgment entered upon a jury’s verdict awarding compensatory damages for breach of an insurance contract. Plaintiffs, Timothy and Cynthia Hoekstra, cross-appeal from a directed verdict for defendant on a count of their petition alleging a bad faith failure to settle their fire loss claim. We affirm on both appeals.

From the evidence adduced at trial, the jury could have found the following facts. Plaintiffs’ home started to burn late in the afternoon on August 27,1982. No one was at home at the time. The…