PULLIN v. SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CAS. INS. CO.

No. 88-2366. Summary Calendar.

874 F.2d 1055 (1989)

Joe Ed PULLIN and Sally Pullin, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SOUTHERN FARM BUREAU CASUALTY INSURANCE CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied July 20, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell H. McMains, McMains & Constant, Corpus Christi, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Sandra Sterba-Boatwright, M.W. Meredith, Jr., Meredith, Donnell & Abernethy, Corpus Christi, Tex., for defendant-appellee.

Before REAVLEY, JONES, and DUHE, Circuit Judges.


EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:

The only issue on appeal, a legal one, is whether an insurance company's duty of good faith and fair dealing toward its insured may require the company to ignore per person limits of coverage when negotiating settlement of one serious bodily injury claim and several less serious ones. We find no warrant in Texas law for such a result, and we affirm the district court's summary judgment in favor of the insurer.

Appellants were...

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