FIREMAN'S FUND COUNTY MUT. INS. CO. v. HIDI

No. 99-0416.

13 S.W.3d 767 (2000)

FIREMAN'S FUND COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY and State and County Mutual Fire Insurance Company, Petitioners, v. Nehat HIDI and Michael Levine, individually and on behalf of all similarly situated automobile insurance consumers in Texas, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

February 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Powell, Austin, Michael Lowenberg, Dallas, Michael S. Truesdale, Jason Matthew Panzer, Austin, Michael Scott Barnard, Amy Kristin Bock, Dallas, for Petitioner.

Roger L. Mandel, Frederick M. Baron, Michelle Heron Galindo, Steve Baughman, Marc R. Stanley, Dallas, for Respondents.


PER CURIAM.

The issue in this case is whether former Insurance Code article 21.79E, which gave insureds a right to recover deductibles from automobile insurance carriers, applies to county mutual insurance companies. The Insurance Code provides that such companies are exempt from all insurance laws except certain enumerated statutes and "such laws as are made applicable by their specific terms." TEX. INS. CODE art. 17.22(a) (Supp.2000). Because former article 21.79E...

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