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- Title: Allison V. Fire Insurance Exchange
- Author : Texas Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 19, 2002
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 98 KB
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In June 2001, a Travis County jury awarded a verdict for over thirty-two million dollars against Fire Insurance Exchange, a member of the Farmers Insurance Group ("FIE"), for its handling of Mary Melinda Ballard's *fn1 homeowner's insurance claims, which began as a single claim for water damage to a hardwood floor and evolved to include mold contamination of the entire house and outbuildings. FIE contends in eleven issues on appeal that the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the jury's liability findings; the district court erred in denying transfer of venue to Hays County; the evidence was legally and factually insufficient to support the jury's findings that FIE failed to appoint a competent, independent appraiser and that the appraisal decision was rendered as a result of fraud, accident, or mistake; the district court abused its discretion in numerous evidentiary rulings; there was no evidence of a knowing violation; the punitive damages award is excessive; there was no evidence to support the mental anguish award; there was insufficient evidence to support the attorneys' fees award; and there was no basis for the statutory penalty under article 21.55 of the insurance code. See Tex. Ins. Code Ann. art. 21.55, § 6 (West Supp. 2003).