Legal Opinion
Fiess v. State Farm Lloyds
Texas Supreme Court
Decided August 31, 2006No. 04-1104Published
1Opinion of the Court 1
202 S.W.3d 744 (2006)
RICHARD FIESS AND STEPHANIE FIESS, Appellants,
v.
STATE FARM LLOYDS, Appellee.
No. 04-1104.
Supreme Court of Texas.
Argued March 30, 2005.
Opinion Delivered August 31, 2006.
2Opinion of the Court · BristerJustice Brister, joined by Chief Justice Jefferson, Justice Hecht, Justice Wainwright, Justice Green, Justice Johnson, and Justice Willett
SCOTT BRISTER, Justice.
The question in this case is not whether insurers should provide mold coverage in Texas, a public policy question beyond our jurisdiction as a court. The question instead is whether the language in an insurance policy provides such coverage no more and no less.
The rules for construing insurance policies have been around for a long time, long before this dispute arose. Those rules…
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- Gustafson v. Alloyd Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1995
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