MCI Sales and Service, Inc. v. Hinton

At the time this case was submitted to the jury, James Hinton1 had neither re-*506eeived nor been promised any payments to settle his claims. Because the Court nevertheless concludes that Central Texas’ payments to the bankruptcy court’s registry rendered it a “settling person,” I respectfully dissent in part.

1. The statute requires courts to evaluate settling persons “at the time of submission.”

Former section 33.011 — the statutory provision applicable here — defined “settling person” as:

a person who at the time of submission has paid or promised to pay money or anything of monetary value to a…