BIRTH CENTER v. ST. PAUL COMPANIES, INC

PER CURIAM:

AND NOW, this 1st day of March, 2000, we GRANT the Petitions for Allowance of Appeal and we LIMIT the appeals to the following issues:

a. Whether the insurer's payment of the excess verdict precludes insured from maintaining a bad faith action;

b. Whether the trial court properly charged the jury on a breach of contract theory based on the insurer's bad faith conduct; and,

c. Whether compensatory damages are recoverable in a bad faith action.