State ex rel. Owners Insurance v. McGraw

Petitioner Owners Insurance Company (“Owners”) invokes the original jurisdiction of this Court seeking a writ of prohibition to stop the Circuit Court of Wyoming County from exercising jurisdiction over it, from applying West Virginia substantive law instead of Ohio law to an insurance coverage issue, from allowing the respondent, Morían Enterprises, Inc. (“Morían”) to proceed against it on a first-party bad faith claim and for violation of the West Virginia Unfair Trade Practice Act (“UTPA”), W. Va.Code § 33-11-1, et seq., (1974), and from prohibiting the presentation of evidence of the…