HURST v. NATIONAL SEC. FIRE & CAS. CO.

No. 17-0719.

629 S.W.3d 143 (2019)

Ozier HURST, Petitioner, v. NATIONAL SECURITY FIRE & CASUALTY COMPANY, Action Claim Service, Inc., and Aaron Timmins, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: December 20, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Killeen Jr. , Robert C. Stern , Gerald M. Johnson III , for Respondents.

Gregory F. Cox , Brandon A. Kinard , John A. Cowan , for Petitioner.

Review denied.

Justice Boyd, joined by Justice Lehmann, dissenting to the denial of the petition for review.


We held last term that an insurer that invokes an agreed-to appraisal process and then pays the appraisal award (1) can still be liable under the Texas Prompt Payment of Claims Act for statutory interest and attorney's fees if the insurer is adjudicated to have been liable for policy benefits or voluntarily accepts that...

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