The question of whether the state-created property insurance company is immune from a bad-faith lawsuit must wait for a judgment in a trial court, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
A Panhandle property owner, San Perdido Association, had sued Citizens Property Insurance Corp. when Citizens didn’t fully pay a claim from Hurricane Ivan in 2004. A court ordered Citizens to pay the claim and it did. Then, the association filed a new lawsuit against Citizens, alleging the company acted in bad faith in originally denying the claim.
