The lodge was insured by Kinsale Insurance Company, and its policy included a $50,000 limit for assault and battery. (Credit: Shutterstock)

In 2015, a woman was shot in the forehead during a brawl outside a Florida lodge and later died from her injuries. A decade later, a federal appeals court decided a bad faith suit against the lodge’s insurance company for how they handled the aftermath of the shooting will be tried by a jury.

According to the suit, on March 1, 2015, two groups of women were involved in a fight on the dance floor of the Pride of St. Lucie Lodge 1189. They were removed from the building through separate exits by lodge security, but the groups reconvened in a back parking lot where a second fight erupted. This culminated with Tanya Oliver being shot in the forehead, which left her in a coma. She died from her injuries the following year.

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