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IN RE ALLSTATE COUNTY MUT. INS. CO.

No. 00-1301.

85 S.W.3d 193 (2002)

In re ALLSTATE COUNTY MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Allstate Indemnity Company, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Property and Casualty Insurance Company, Allstate Texas Lloyd's, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company of Texas, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company, Progressive County Mutual Insurance Company, Progressive Northwestern Insurance Company, Progressive Preferred Insurance Company, Progressive Southeastern Insurance Company, and Progressive Specialty Insurance Company, Relators.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided August 29, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Close, Leanne Johnson, Hollis Horton, Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Beaumont, Thomas T. Rogers, Jackson & Walker, Sean Daniel Jordan, Bell & Murphy, Austin, Reagan M. Brown, Fulbright & Jaworski, Rachel Sue Giesber, Edward B. Adams, Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Houston, Lawrence L. Germer, Germer & Gertz, Beaumont, for Relators.

E. Hart Green, Mitchell A. Toups, Weller Green Toups & Terrell, Beaumont, H. Lee Godfrey, Susman Godfrey, Houston, for Respondent.

Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice PHILLIPS, Justice HECHT, Justice OWEN, Justice O'NEILL and Justice JEFFERSON joined.

The trial court in this case determined that an appraisal provision in a personal automobile insurance policy promulgated by the Texas Department of Insurance is an agreement to arbitrate, and as such, the agreement is unenforceable because it is against public policy. Thus, the trial court refused to enforce...

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