Cammarata v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance

CRANE, Presiding Judge.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Companies (insurer) appeals from a judgment of an associate circuit judge in favor of an insured automobile driver, Ms passenger, and Ms health care provider for vexatious refusal to pay. Insured, passenger, and health care provider have moved to dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction pursuant to Section 512.180.1,1 claiming that insurer’s only remedy is a trial de novo. We agree and dismiss the appeal.

Insured driver, Frank Cammarata, and his passenger, Phillip Markovitz, filed an action against insurer on July 28, 1994. In…