Insurer’s Invocation Of Appraisal, Payment Of Award Did Not Cure Bad Faith Claim

(March 17, 2022, 1:23 PM EDT) -- LAKELAND, Fla. — A Florida appeals panel on March 16 held that an insurer’s invocation of an appraisal process and its payment of an appraisal award after the expiration of the 60-day cure period on the insured’s civil remedy notice did not cure its alleged bad faith, reversing and remanding a lower court’s summary judgment ruling in favor of the insurer in a lawsuit arising from the insured’s property damage caused by a lightning strike....

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