An insurer did not act in bad faith when it delayed settlement in a case involving a fatal shooting outside a Florida lodge, a federal jury has found.
Richmond, Virginia-based Kinsale Insurance is only liable for a $50,000 sublimit rather than the roughly $5 million that would have been owed to the lodge and the estate of shooting victim Tanya Oliver, said Miranda Soto, a Miami-based attorney for Kinsale, said in an email.
In 2019, a previous jury handed a $3.3 million judgment against the lodge due to negligent security, which has grown to about $5 million with interest, Ms. Soto added. The verdict was handed down last week in Kinsale Insurance Co. vs. Pride of St. Lucie Lodge 1189 in the U.S. Southern District in Florida…