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REPORTED IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND No. 977 September Term, 2009

CHRISTINA THOMPSON v. STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY

Zarnoch, Wright, Raker, Irma S. (Retired, Specially Assigned),

JJ.

Opinion by Zarnoch, J.

Filed: December 2, 2010

It is not often that a routine venue dispute triggers difficult issues of statutory construction and constitutional law. But this is such a case. At the center of the controversy is a 2007 enactment of the General Assembly creating administrative and judicial remedies for a first-party insured against a property and casualty insurer who fails to act in good faith in denying coverage or declining payment for a covered loss. Chapter 150, Laws of 2007.1 The law also confers on the parties the right to have "the case" tried by a jury. CJP

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