Panel Conditionally Grants Insurer’s Mandamus Petition In Hurricane Harvey Dispute

Mealey's (April 1, 2019, 11:03 AM EDT) -- BEAUMONT, Texas — A Texas appeals panel on March 28 conditionally granted an insurer’s petition for writ of mandamus challenging a lower court’s discovery order in a Hurricane Harvey coverage dispute, finding that the lower court abused its discretion by not limiting discovery to relevant evidence and ordering discovery that was beyond that discoverable under Texas law (In Re Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, No. 09-18-00446, Texas App., 9th Dist., 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 2461)....