State ex rel. Key Insurance Company, Relator v. the Honorable Marco A. Roldan

Summary

The Court quashed its preliminary writ of prohibition, holding that the circuit court had personal jurisdiction over Key Insurance because Nash adequately pleaded that Key committed the tort of bad-faith refusal to settle in Missouri. The alleged tort satisfied Missouri's long-arm statute and, because the claim arose from that Missouri contact, also supplied sufficient minimum contacts for due process. The Court did not decide the merits of the coverage dispute or interpret the insurance policy.