OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Seventeen years after it started, a multimillion-dollar insurance dispute between the state of Florida and a Nebraska company continues to meander through the courts.

The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled on aspects of the case four times, and the primary defendant, David Fulkerson, died in 2009. But none of that has ended the lawsuit that began in 1998.

Chris Welsh, president of the Nebraska Association of Trial Attorneys, says it’s unusual for a case to drag on this long.

The National Center for State Courts says Nebraska courts strive to have jury judgment in civil lawsuits within 18 months of when they are filed.

?The case centers on the relationship between Fulkerson’s former company, Countrywide Insurance Agency, and an insolvent insurance company that Florida regulators took control of in 1997.