Title: Lavoie v. AETNA LIFE AND CAS. CO., INC.

State: alabama

Issuer: Alabama Supreme Court

Document:

405 So. 2d 17 (1981)
Margaret W. LAVOIE and Roger J. Lavoie, Sr.
v.
AETNA LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, INC., A Corporation.
80-149.

Supreme Court of Alabama.
October 2, 1981.
Joseph M. Brown, Jr., of Cunningham, Bounds, Byrd, Yance & Crowder, Mobile, for appellants.
Peter V. Sintz of Sintz, Pike, Campbell & Duke, Mobile, for appellee.
PER CURIAM.
This is the second appeal of this case. On the first appeal, from an order of the Circuit *18 Court of Mobile County granting insurer's motion to dismiss insured's complaint, the Supreme Court, per Torbert, C. J., reversed and remanded, stating:
Lavoie v. Aetna Life & Casualty Company, Inc., 374 So. 2d 310 (Ala.1979), at 312.
Upon remand the insurer's second motion for summary judgment was granted as to the statements of the claim based upon the alleged tortious conduct of the defendant insurer (bad faith); and judgment was entered for the insured on the two statements of the claim based upon contract. The insured appeals from that portion of the trial court's order entering judgment for insurer.
In a recent decision, this Court recognized the intentional tort of bad faith in first party insurance actions. Chavers v. National Security Fire and Casualty Company, 405 So. 2d 1 (Ala.1981). The judgment of the Circuit Court of Mobile County, therefore, is reversed and remanded with directions to that court to reconsider the insurer's motion for summary judgment in the light of the teachings of Chavers.
REVERSED AND REMANDED WITH DIRECTIONS.
JONES, SHORES and BEATTY, JJ., concur.
TORBERT, C. J., and MADDOX, J., concur in the result.