The Court granted in part and denied in part GEICO’s motion for summary judgment on Randy Willoughby’s bad-faith insurance claim, ruling that GEICO acted in bad faith by failing to offer to pay Willoughby’s claimed property damages during the 2015 negotiations and by failing to agree to pay taxable costs after the Florida Supreme Court’s decision in Macedo (Gov’t Emps. Ins. Co. v. Macedo, 228 So. 3d 1111, 1115 (Fla. 2017)). The Court emphasized that GEICO’s refusal to settle within the policy limits and its failure to consider the property damage provision constituted bad faith under the totality of the circumstances (Bos. Old Colony Ins. Co. v. Gutierrez, 386 So. 2d 783, 785 (Fla. 1980)).
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