Supreme Court of Texas

In the context of Insurance Code class actions brought by the attorney general on behalf of insurance buyers, the typicality, adequacy, and other prerequisites for all class actions must be applied to the damage claims asserted by an attorney general, rather than to that official personally.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/25/2007
• Decided 04/27/2007
• Published 04/27/2007

Judges

• Justice BRISTER delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Chief Justice JEFFERSON, Justice O'NEILL, Justice WAINWRIGHT, Justice MEDINA, Justice GREEN, and Justice JOHNSON joined.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Katherine D. Mackillop, Richard N. Carrell, Layne E. Kruse, Gerard G. Pecht, Marcy Hogan Greer, Mary S. Dietz and M. Scott Incerto, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Austin, for Farmer Group Inc., Marcy Hogan Greer, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P., Austin, for Farmers Underwriters Association, Fire Underwriters Association, Farmers Insurance Exchange, Texas Farmers Insurance Company, Mid-Century Insurance Company of Texas, Mid-Century Insurance Company, Truck Insurance Exchange, Truck Underwriters Association, and Farmers Texas County Mutual Insurance Company., Russell S. Post, Joe K. Longley, Law Offices of Joe K. Longley, Philip K. Maxwell, Law Offices of Philip K. Maxwell, Stephen L. McCleery, Austin, Michael T. Gallagher, The Gallagher Law Firm, Daniel M. Downey, Gallagher Lewis Downey & Kim, Houston, for Jan Lubin., David C. Mattax, Chief Financial Litigation, John M. Hohengarten, James R. Wenzel, William T. hall & Associates, Jeff M. Graham, Lisa Royce Eskow, Weil, Gothshal & Manges LLP, Amy Warr, Alexander Dubose Jones & Townsend, LLP, Greg Abbott, Atty. Gen., Barry Ross McBee, Edward D. Burbach, Rafael Edward Cruz, Paul D. Carmona, Austin, for State., Joseph C. Blanks, Doucette, for Gerald Hooks and Lesly K. Hooks., David H. Burrow, Burrow & Parrott, L.L.P., Houston, for Michael Paladino., David H. Burrow, Burrow & Parrott, L.L.P., Russell S. Post, David Watkin Jones, Beck Redden & Secrest, L.L.P., Dwight E. Jefferson, Houston, for Gilberto Villanueva.