Stewart Title Guaranty Company v. John & Lucy Mims, Helen Cotton Ragland

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice LANG.

This is an accelerated interlocutory appeal 1 from the trial court’s order granting class certification in a case involving allegations that appellant Stewart Title Guaranty Company (“STGC”) charged premiums for title insurance policies that exceeded the rates set by the Texas Department of Insurance (“TDI”). For the reasons below, we reverse the trial court’s order granting class certification and remand this case to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Appellees John and Lucy Mims (“the Mims”)…