Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc.

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc.

747 A.2d 858

CourtSupreme Court of Pennsylvania

DecidedMarch 1, 2000

DocketPetition Nos. 0579, 0580, 0581 and 0582 M.D. Alloc. Dkt. 1999

StatusPublished

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Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc., 747 A.2d 858 (Pa. 2000).

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ORDER

PER CURIAM:

AND NOW, this 1st day of March, 2000, we GRANT the Petitions for Allowance of Appeal and we LIMIT the appeals to the following issues:

a. Whether the insurer’s payment of the excess verdict precludes insured from maintaining a bad faith action;

b. Whether the trial court properly charged the jury on a breach of contract theory based on the insurer’s bad faith conduct; and,

c. Whether compensatory damages are recoverable in a bad faith action.

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