Case Name: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign insurance company, Petitioner, v. Regis COOK and Rosina Pereira Cook, Respondents
Court: Florida District Court of Appeal
Jurisdiction: Florida
Decision Date: 1997-07-02
Citations: 696 So. 2d 497
Docket Number: No. 97-482
Parties: LIBERTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, a foreign insurance company, Petitioner, v. Regis COOK and Rosina Pereira Cook, Respondents.
Judges: Before NESBITT, LEVY and GODERICH, JJ.
Reporter: Southern Reporter, Second Series
Volume: 696
Pages: 497–498

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.