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In re State Farm Lloyds Hidalgo County Hail Storm Litigation

Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided May 13, 2014No. 14-0169PublishedCited by 3 opinions

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2Opinion of the Court · BrownJustice Harvey Brown

Within a 24-day period in the spring of 2012, two hailstorms occurred in Hidalgo County, causing damage to residences across the county. Eventually over 1,000 residents filed lawsuits in that county against their insurers arising out of the insurers’ handling of the residents’ insur-anee claims. We granted two insurers’ requests for an MDL for the two hailstorms. In short order, the cases against a third insurer (Allstate Texas Lloyds) were transferred into the same MDL pretrial court. Through Rule 13’s tag-along procedure, the MDL grew to…

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