TEXAS MUT. INS. CO. v. CHICAS

No. 17-0501.

593 S.W.3d 284 (2019)

TEXAS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Bertila CHICAS, Individually and as Beneficiary of Santiago Chicas, Deceased, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: April 5, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dale Wainright , Justin Bernstein , Greenberg Traurig, LLP, James A. Hemphill , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody PC, Mary Barrow Nichols , Shannon Simmons Pounds , Texas Mutual Insurance Company, Austin, Jonathan L. Chaltain , Kyle Mullins Jones , R. Scott Placek , Scott K. Arnold , Arnold & Placek, P.C, Round Rock, for Petitioners.

Scott Keller , Baker Botts LLP, Kurt H. Kuhn , Lisa B. Hobbs , Kuhn Hobbs PLLC, Thomas R. Phillips , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody PC, Austin, Steve Waldman , Terry Bryant, Terry Bryant PLLC, Houston, for Respondents.

Jessica M. MacCarty , Robert D. Stokes , Flahive, Ogden & Latson, P.C., Austin, for Amicus Curiae.


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