HOUSTON – Two attempts to seek a new trial from a couple who alleged their insurer had failed to provide adequate payments for their home after it was damaged by Hurricane Ike has been turned back by the Court of Appeals for the First District of Texas.
AUSTIN – The Supreme Court of Texas has overturned two lower court rulings and ordered that a new trial take place in an $11,350 Galveston Island insurance case.
McALLEN – A final judgment of more than $665,000 has been entered in a Hidalgo County hail lawsuit – a far cry from the $1.8 million in damages originally awarded by the jury.
McALLEN – A jury in Hidalgo County, crowned a “Judicial Hellhole” the past two years because of mass hailstorm litigation, recently awarded a hail claimant nearly $1.8 million in damages, saddling an insurance company with $800,000 in exemplary damages alone for allegedly acting with malice.
FORT SMITH, Ark. – Five lawyers were handed sanctions under a ruling by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas - Fort Smith Division over moving a class-action suit to a more favorable location so that would impose greater payment to the lawyers.
HOUSTON – Spring has definitely come in like a lion in Texas so far, but no lamb is in sight yet as a torrent of storm lawsuits are currently flooding state courts.
EDINGBURG – At the conclusion of a civil trial in Hidalgo County, The Voss Law Firm ended up securing an award of any attorney’s fees that was thousands of dollars more than what jurors awarded to the client it represented.
MARSHALL DIVISION
March 17
Verify Smart Corp. v. Twitter, Inc. 2:16-cv-00235-JRG
Verify Smart Corp. v. USAA 2:16-cv-00236-JRG
Verify Smart Corp. v. Salesforce.com, Inc. 2:16-cv-00237-JRG
Verify Smart Corp. v. Dropbox, Inc. 2:16-cv-00238-JRG
Verify Smart Corp. v. Basecamp, Inc. 2:16-cv-00239-JRG
A Galveston County woman is suing her car insurance company, alleging it refuses to pay uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage following a vehicle accident the woman was in.
A Dickinson couple is suing their own insurance company and a driver who allegedly struck their child while she was crossing a Galveston County street in 2014.
