The Honorable Marco A. Roldan Missouri Cases

Key Insurance Company, a Kansas insurer, sought a writ of prohibition to prevent a Missouri circuit court from exercising personal jurisdiction over it in a lawsuit alleging bad faith refusal to settle and breach of contract. The underlying dispute involved a motor vehicle collision in Missouri, where Key denied coverage for its Kansas insured's father. The Supreme Court of Missouri quashed its preliminary writ of prohibition, holding that the alleged tort of bad faith refusal to settle in Missouri established sufficient minimum contacts for specific personal jurisdiction under the long-arm statute and due process.