Texas High Court Deems Hailstorm MDL Attorney Fee Info Protected As Work Product

Mealey's (June 13, 2017, 8:38 AM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas Supreme Court majority on June 9 granted an insurer’s petition for mandamus in a discovery dispute, finding that a trial court and an appeals court abused their discretion by granting a group of insured’s request for billing records from other cases in the same multidistrict litigation because such records are protected from discovery as work product (In Re National Lloyds Insurance Co., Wardlaw Claims Service Inc. and Ideal Adjusting Inc., No. 15-0591, Texas Sup., 2017 Tex. LEXIS 522)....