Huffman Following the lead of Texas Gov. Rick Perry in support of a loser pays tort reform initiative, two Texas legislators have filed bills that could make the reforms a reality.
Taylor The fees paid to lawyers for Hurricane Ike litigation were excessive, said a Texas lawmaker at a meeting of the Texas House Insurance Committee on Tuesday.
Beach houses reduced to pilings and slabs by Hurricane Ike. Sixty-four attorneys from Southeast Texas received an estimated $44 million from settlement agreements with the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, according to recent documents from TWIA.
Criss State District Judge Susan Criss (D - Galveston) issued an order Thursday dissolving her injunction prohibiting the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association from releasing information about a $189 million settlement with Hurricane Ike victims.
Criss Despite his belief that the information should be available to requesters, the head of the Texas Windstorm Insurance Association told Texas lawmakers that he would not defy the order of a Galveston judge prohibiting the release of documents relating to Hurricane Ike settlements.
Criss AUSTIN - Galveston Judge Susan Criss cannot order the Texas Windstorm Association to withhold information about a $189 million lawsuit settlement or the attorneys' fees, the Texas attorney general's office ruled today.
Early in September we editorialized about the full-page newspaper ads running statewide that labeled Gov. Rick Perry a coward for refusing to debate his Democratic opponent, former Houston Mayor Bill White.
Perry Although Democratic candidates received millions of dollars from trial lawyers, it was not enough to unseat Republican incumbents Gov. Rick Perry, Attorney General Greg Abbott or three justices on the state Supreme Court.
Texas trial lawyers surpassed their 2008 benchmark for campaign spending, shelling out $13.6 million so far in 2010, with famed Houston hurricane attorney Steve Mostyn providing almost half the cash.
Jack As U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack plans her impending retirement in June 2011, local and national tort reform groups praise the impact she had behind the bench during her 17 year career as a federal judge.
Perry As the Texas governor's race enters its final six weeks, trial lawyers and tort reformers have once again found themselves on opposite sides of the political aisle.
Spending on state Supreme Court elections across the country has more than doubled in the past decade, and, according to a report released Monday, special interest groups are outspending individual donors by a wide margin.
Edwards Tort reformers and trial attorneys usually don't agree on much, but both groups recently joined forces to urge Texas lawmakers to help put an end to the practice of "ambulance chasing" in the state.
Lehrmann After a runoff victory Tuesday, a family law judge with 22 years of legal experience will represent the Republican party as a candidate for the Texas Supreme Court.