Goheagan v. American Vehicle Insurance Co.
District Court of Appeal of Florida
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
HAZOURI, J.
We grant Goheagan’s motion for rehearing, withdraw our original opinion, and substitute the following in its place.
Olive Goheagan, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Molly Swaby, Individually and as Assignee of John Perkins, appeals a final summary judgment entered in favor of American Vehicle Insurance Company (AVIC) on Goheagan’s claim of bad faith in failing to protect its insured Perkins from an excess judgment. We reverse.
Goheagan1 filed a bad-faith claim against AVIC which arose as a result of a motor vehicle accident in which AVIC’s insured,…
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