by George Christian | Dec 18, 2025
The Austin Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court order requiring the employee in a workers’ compensation case to pay his lawyer’s fees out his recovery of certain supplemental income benefits. Law Offices of Miller & Bicklein, PC and Daniel Miramontes v. Ace...
by George Christian | Dec 17, 2025
A 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision has become a flashpoint in the State of Texas’ litigation against the manufacturer of Tylenol. That decision, which held that a Pennsylvania statute requiring a foreign entity to consent to the general jurisdiction of Pennsylvania...
by George Christian | Dec 17, 2025
The Tyler Court of Appeals has upheld a $450,000 judgment against an East Texas grocery store chain because it did not preserve for appeal the issue of Plaintiff’s capacity to sue for past medical expenses. Brookshire Grocery Company v. Frankie York (No....
by George Christian | Dec 16, 2025
In a case we first reported last April, the Texas Supreme Court has reversed a Houston [14th] Court of Appeals holding that § 97.002, CPRC, which protects a road contractor from liability if the contractor performs the work in substantial compliance with TxDOT’s...
by George Christian | Dec 15, 2025
The Corpus Christi Court of Appeals has affirmed a summary judgment in favor of an insurer in a homeowner’s policy dispute, including an award of appellate attorney’s fees. Jaime Lopez and Silvia Rodriguez Lopez v. State National Insurance Company and Wellington Risk...
by George Christian | Dec 12, 2025
The El Paso Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court order denying a defense motion to compel arbitration in a dispute over a noncompete clause because the defendants substantially invoked the litigation process to plaintiffs’ detriment. In a substituted memorandum...
by George Christian | Dec 11, 2025
In an outcome we can’t remember having seen, at least in a long time, the Houston [14th] Court of Appeals has reversed the trial and rendered take-nothing judgments on both Plaintiff’s fraudulent lien claim and Defendant’s counterclaim for breach of contract. West...
by George Christian | Dec 10, 2025
The 15th Court of Appeals has upheld a trial court order granting SOAH’s and a SOAH ALJ’s plea to the jurisdiction in a case in which a taxpayer asked SOAH to conduct an evidentiary hearing on whether Harris County Appraisal District properly classified certain...
by George Christian | Dec 9, 2025
The San Antonio Court of Appeals has overturned a trial court ruling that a 1931 deed conveying an undivided 1/12 interest in an express reservation of “all Coal” in or under the land did not include lignite. San Miguel Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Lively (No....
by George Christian | Dec 8, 2025
The Fifteenth Court of Appeals has denied ASI Lloyds Insurance Company’s appeal in a dispute concerning the computation of excess-loss payments for damages caused by Hurricane Harvey. ASI Lloyds Insurance Company v. Texas Windstorm Insurance Association and the...
