Month: August 2011

Gravely & Pearson, the policyholders law firm, prevailed in the Supreme Court of Texas in an insurance coverage dispute arising out of extensive storm damage to a church in Corpus Christi. In a unanimous opinion in Christi Bay Temple v. GuideOne Specialty Mut. Ins. Co., the Supreme Court of Texas ruled in favor of the church, which had a commercial property insurance policy with GuideOne. The ...
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Gravely & Pearson, the policyholders law firm, has filed an amici curiae ("friends of the court") brief in Blum's Furniture v. Certain Underwriters of Lloyds of London, an appeal pending before the Federal Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case concerns an attempt by the insurance industry to get the courts to fashion a rule that allows the insurance industry to use appraisal clauses to avoi...
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