Legal Opinion
in Re Progressive County Mutual Insurance Company
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided June 12, 2014No. 01-14-00199-CVPublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HARVEY BROWN, Justice.
Relator, Progressive County Mutual Insurance Company seeks a writ of mandamus compelling the trial court to (1) vacate its order denying Progressive’s motion to sever extra-contractual claims asserted against it and (2) enter an order abating those extra-contractual claims until the breach-of-contract claim brought by Alma Guia, the real party in interest, has been resolved. We conditionally grant the writ.
Background
Following an automobile collision with an uninsured motorist’s vehicle, Guia sued her insurer, Progressive. 1 While investigation into the claim was…
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