Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc.

747 A.2d 858, 560 Pa. 633, 2000 Pa. LEXIS 520

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania·Decided March 1, 2000·No. Petition Nos. 0579, 0580, 0581 and 0582 M.D. Alloc. Dkt. 1999·Published·Cited by 6 cases

Opinion

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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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.

Birth Center v. St. Paul Companies, Inc., 747 A.2d 858, 560 Pa. 633, 2000 Pa. LEXIS 520 (Pa. 2000).

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