Insurer Seeks Dismissal Of Class Action Alleging It Uses Unqualified Expert Witnesses

Mealey's (February 24, 2021, 8:58 AM EST) -- HOUSTON — An insurer on Feb. 19 asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss a law firm’s fraud and civil conspiracy class action alleging that it repeatedly hires “unqualified people to prepare so-called controverting affidavits in areas” in which “they have no knowledge, skill, training, education, or experience,” arguing that the law firm’s own pleadings and Texas law disprove that the insurer and three of its expert witnesses knowingly made false representations....