In the case of Mobley v. Capitol Specialty Ins. Corp., 2013 WL 3794058 (S.D. Fla. July 19, 2013), the U.S. District Court implicitly accepted jurisdiction over a Florida statutory bad faith action which was pled as a declaratory judgment action against a liability carrier.
This may be the most repeated feature of the District Court's decision in this case, as it may be the most frequently cited proposition for which it stands in the eyes of other Courts (although a silent opinion, since the Court did not express an opinion about jurisdiction, the Court instead just simply exercised it).
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