While ruling that a $5.1 million bad-faith verdict against an insurance company should not have been vacated, the Pennsylvania Superior Court also held that the judgment was unenforceable.

In Schriner v. One Beacon Insurance, a three-judge panel held that the plaintiffs—tenants who sued their landlords for toxic mold-related injuries and then went after the landlords’ insurance company after releasing them from liability and taking up their claims—could not collect the judgment plus delay damages because the landlords, as insureds, were no longer liable.

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