The alleged tort of tortious interference with a business relationship is posting a good record at surviving the motions to dismiss filed against it by defendant insurance companies in the Southern District of Florida:
As Plaintiff observes in response to the Green Tree Defendants' Motion, this Court has often found that a plaintiff has properly stated a claim for tortious interference with a business relationship in cases alleging wrongful force-placement of insurance.
Burdick v. Bank of Am., N.A., ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, 2015 WL 1780982 *5 (S.D. Fla. April 14, 2015).
This is especially true in lender force-placed insurance cases filed against mortgage servicers and force-placing insurance companies which are not also the plaintiffs’ lenders:
This case is not meaningfully different. Here, in the light most favorable to Plaintiff, the Amended Complaint alleges that Defendants Green Tree Servicing and Green Tree Insurance conspired in bad faith to improperly force-place insurance on Plaintiff's property, and that this conduct interfered with the relationship between Plaintiff and the holder of his mortgage.
Burdick v. Bank of Am., N.A., ___ F. Supp. 3d ___, 2015 WL 1780982 *5 (S.D. Fla. April 14, 2015).
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