Legal Opinion
Forth v. Allstate Indemnity Co.
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided December 8, 2004No. 06-03-00135-CVPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Chief Justice MORRISS.
After Pat Forth’s daughter was injured in an automobile accident, Forth filed claims for the resulting medical expenses with her then personal-injury-protection (PIP) insurer, Allstate Indemnity Company. Allstate paid only a portion of the claimed expenses, and Forth sued Allstate for herself and as representative of a putative class of PIP claimants. Forth asserts Allstate is arbitrary in its PIP claim practices in paying only those portions of claimed medical expenses which do not exceed those which rank at the eighty-fifth percentile of medical…
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