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LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign insurance company, Petitioner, v. Regis COOK and Rosina Pereira Cook, Respondents.
    No. 97-482.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.
    July 2, 1997.
    
      Ribler, Gilmartin & Sanchez, Russo & Talisman and Kimberly L. Boldt, Coconut Grove, for petitioner.
    William K. Crispin, Homestead, for respondents.
    Before NESBITT, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.
   PER CURIAM.

The order below, which refused to stay a bad faith claim against the carrier pending the resolution of an underlying coverage dispute, is quashed. See Blanchard v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co., 575 So.2d 1289 (Fla.1991); Utah Home Fire Ins. Co. v. Navarro, 642 So.2d 1200 (Fla. 3d DCA 1994); Michigan Millers Mut. Ins. Co. v. Bourke, 581 So.2d 1368 (Fla. 2d DCA 1991).

Certiorari granted.