Mealey's (August 9, 2022, 2:00 PM EDT) -- AUSTIN, Texas — A federal judge in Texas should sustain an insurer’s objection to a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation that the insurer’s summary judgment motion in a coverage dispute stemming from the contractor’s alleged defective work performed in a home construction project be denied because the magistrate judge erred in relying on certain evidence of damages to walls and floors that homeowners themselves alleged were defective, the insurer argues in an Aug. 8 reply brief filed in Texas federal court....