Legal Opinion
In re State Farm Lloyds Hurricane Litigation
Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided October 22, 2012No. 12-0156PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*131On Review by the Multidistrict Litigation Panel
Chief Justice McCLURE
delivered the unanimous opinion of the MDL Panel.
We consider today whether a non-hurricane windstorm case may be joined as a tag-along to a previously created pre-trial Hurricane Ike MDL court. On April 25, 2012, we granted State Farm’s request for transfer involving 266 cases pending in sixteen counties arising from Hurricane Ike in 2008. In re State Farm Lloyds Hurricane Ike Litigation, MDL No. 12-0156. In the opinion that issued May 21, we held that the cases were related because they arose from one event and the…
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