Posted on May 21, 2009 by Chip Merlin

Not So Fast on Calling the Texas House Bill Bad---The Bad Language Mysteriously Disappears

After reading what actually passed, the House Committee seems to have struck all of the Senate language concerning 2210.552, and then added a new subsection (on page 36 of its 51 page bill) which reads :

SECTION 40. Section 2210.552, Insurance Code, is amended by

adding Subsection (e) to read as follows:

(e)  Notwithstanding Subchapter H, Chapter 74, Government

Code, or any other law, an action brought under this section may not

be transferred by the judicial panel on multidistrict litigation.

Maybe the calls and messages paid off. Maybe policyholders just got lucky. The important activity for now is to make certain that legislators know to keep it this way.

Stay tuned for developments.

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Robert W. Loree - May 21, 2009 11:19 AM

I am an attorney in San Antonio, who specializes in first-party claims.I personally know some state legislatures very well. Please let me know whether I can be of any assistance concerning the bill on TWIA.

Rob Loree

Chip Merlin - May 21, 2009 11:29 AM

Bob,

Yes, we need all the help we can get. I am not certain what is going to happen next on this.

Please call your friends and let us know what they say as soon as you can. We need to know where to direct our attention to make certain the bad language does not just as mysteriously re-appear.

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