AAA Texas Reveals 2022’s Top Auto Insurance Claims
2022 has presented many challenges to Texans from inflation and supply chain issues to an increasing number of insurance claims. While all automobile insurance claims are not avoidable, most are by driving defensively and following simple tips.
December 29, 2022
Auto
Texas
High-End Houston Automotive Shop Burns With 60 Classic Vehicles Inside
At least 60 cars were inside a high-end automotive garage that caught fire Tuesday morning, the Houston Fire Department said.
December 22, 2022
Auto
Liability
Subrogation
Texas
Tornadoes Track Through Southern Plains, Fatalities In Louisiana
A marathon of severe weather rampaged through the southern Plains Tuesday, spawning multiple tornadoes, injuring at least five people and claiming the lives of at least two people.
December 14, 2022
Property
Louisiana
Texas
Extrinsic Evidence, Or Eight Corners? Texas Court Sheds Light On Determining the Duty to Defend
Last year, the Texas Supreme Court adopted a narrow exception to the state’s eight-corners rule, and allowed the consideration of extrinsic evidence to determine the duty to defend. The exception arguably raised more questions than it resolved.
December 5, 2022
Litigation
Texas
Rare Win: Baylor College Awarded $12M for COVID BI Losses
They’ve been cropping up since 2020: COVID business interruption claims. Forced shutdowns due to a rising pandemic gave way to organizations looking for compensation for monies lost. But, as we all know, business interruption coverage will only trigger if a physical loss has occurred.
November 10, 2022
Litigation
Property
Texas
Devastation After Deadly Tornado Outbreak In Texas, Oklahoma
New videos show scenes of devastation in the aftermath of powerful tornadoes that touched down in Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas on Friday. At least eight tornadoes were confirmed by survey teams from the National Weather Service, and two of those have been rated an EF-3 with winds near 160 mph.
November 7, 2022
Auto
Property
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
FedEx Appeals $366M Verdict in Racial Discrimination Case
FedEx Corp said it would ask a federal judge in Texas to throw out or reduce a jury’s $366 million damages award to a Black former employee who accused the company of disciplining and firing her after she complained about racial discrimination.
November 2, 2022
Liability
Litigation
Texas
Toyota Insurance Launches in Eighth State, Texas
Toyota auto insurance (TAI), the automaker’s branded coverage product which launched last December, has now announced that it is moving into Texas for the first time. Texas is the second largest market in the United States and will be an important move for the insurer.
October 27, 2022
Auto
Texas
Renewable Energy Sector Hit by Hail Losses
U.S. renewable energy insurers are expected to pay out more than $300 million in claims due to hailstorms in Texas this year, GCube Underwriting Ltd. said in a report Tuesday.
October 19, 2022
Excess & Surplus Lines
Texas
70+ Vehicles Burned at Texas Pumpkin Patch
What was supposed to be a picture day with the pumpkins turned into dozens of families running for their lives. More than 70 cars went up in flames at a pumpkin patch near Temple, Texas.
October 18, 2022
Auto
Texas
California Leads the Nation in Rising Catalytic Converter Thefts
State Farm has released an update to a previous report it has made regarding recent trends in auto insurance claims having to do with catalytic converter thefts. The trend, though already bad in the last report, has only managed to worsen across the country.
October 5, 2022
Auto
California
Illinois
Minnesota
Texas
Washington
Allstate, State Farm Continue to Raise Auto Insurance Rates
Allstate and State Farm have continued to pursue significant auto insurance rate increases as they react to inflationary pressures and increases in auto accident severity.
September 21, 2022
Auto
Arizona
Florida
Illinois
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Fifth Circuit Leans on Well-Established Contractual Interpretation Doctrine to Preclude Coverage Under General Liability Policy
To paraphrase Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., a case ‘which appeals to the feelings and distorts the judgment’ makes bad law. In the face of exceptionally tragic circumstances, however, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals resisted the urge to let its emotions carry the day.
September 12, 2022
Liability
Litigation
Texas
Baylor Wins COVID Business Interruption Jury Verdict Against Lloyd’s
A jury has issued a $48.5 million verdict in favor of Baylor College of Medicine in COVID-19 business interruption coverage it filed against Lloyd’s underwriters, in the first such verdict on the issue.
September 6, 2022
Litigation
Property
Texas
Blue Bell’s Carriers Do Not Have to Pay for Listeria Outbreak Damages
Federal Judge Robert Pitman, who presided over the 15-day mistrial of Blue Bell’s former president, has ruled in another case involving the Brenham, TX-based creamery. From his Western District of Texas federal court bench, Pitman granted the motion for a summary judgment favoring two insurance companies over Blue Bell Creameries USA Inc.
August 29, 2022
Liability
Litigation
Texas
