Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Texas Department of Insurance

OPINION

BOB PEMBERTON, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order granting a plea to the jurisdiction in an employers liability insurance coverage case. Our principal issue concerns whether, as the district court concluded, the Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (“the Division”) 1 has exclusive jurisdiction over a dispute concerning the coverage period under an employers liability insurance policy. We also consider whether the district court erred in holding that a challenge to a Division rule by appellant Texas Mutual Insurance Company (“Texas Mutual”)…