Panel: Insurer’s Receiver Fails To Show Appellants Had Minimum Contact With Texas

Mealey's (March 22, 2021, 2:30 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas appeals panel on March 17 held that the collective claims and evidence relied on by an insolvent insurer’s specialty deputy receiver were insufficient to demonstrate that nonresident defendants had minimum contact with Texas to support personal jurisdiction, reversing a lower court’s order that denied the nonresident defendants’ special appearances and rendering judgment dismissing all claims against them....