State Farm Fire & Casualty Company vs. Simmons, James and Cynthia

Year 1996

Court Texas Supreme Court

Case Number D-4095

Issue

Punitive Damages

State

Texas

UP brief supports Court of Appeals decision holding that (1) insurance company acted in bad faith; (2) the insurance company failed to show the policyholders burned their own home and (3) punitive damage award of two million was not excessive.

Related Docs

State-Farm-Fire-v.-Simmons.pdf

Author UP's brief was written pro bono by Eugene R. Anderson, Esq. and John A. MacDonald, Esq. of Anderson Kill & Olick, PC. Of Counsel: Amy Bach, Esq.