TAYLOR v. ROOT INS. CO.

No. 23-50667.

109 F.4th 806 (2024)

Christa TAYLOR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ROOT INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 24, 2024.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradley W. Beskin, Nix Patterson, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Richard Eugene Norman, Esq., Ronald Martin Weber, Jr. (argued), Esq., Crowley Norman, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jennifer L. Mesko, Ariana Elle Bernard, Tucker Ellis, L.L.P., Cleveland, OH, David Alan Forkner (argued), Williams & Connolly, L.L.P., Washington, DC for Defendant-Appellee Root Insurance Company.

Before Southwick and Duncan, Circuit Judges, and Kernodle, District Judge.


This appeal requires us to interpret an insurance policy. When the plaintiff's vehicle was damaged, her insurer paid her the vehicle's actual cash value in a total-loss settlement. The issue is whether her policy also required the insurer to pay her the equivalent of what the sales tax would be on the sale of...

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