State Farm Insurance Co. v. Edwards

Opinion of the Court by

Justice ABRAMSON.

State Farm Insurance Company appeals from an Order of the Court of Appeals denying its petition for a writ of prohibition. State Farm seeks to prohibit Judge Brian Edwards of the Jefferson Circuit Court from referring State Farm’s default judgment motion to the circuit court Master Commissioner for certain factual determinations. State Farm maintains that the trial court could make the determinations itself in the first instance and spare State Farm the $50.00 fee for the commissioner’s *458report. Since State Farm is frequently before the circuit court…