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Texas 'Hail Bill' Promotes Dispute Resolution Over Litigation

By Kristin Cummings and Lindsey Bruning (May 29, 2018, 3:40 PM EDT) -- On Sept. 1, 2017, Texas Insurance Code Section 542A — known as the "Hail Bill" — took effect. Primarily prompted by abuses relating to hailstorm litigation, the new law applies to all first-party property insurance claims involving "forces of nature," such as earthquake, wildfire, flood, tornado, lightning, hurricane, hail, wind, snowstorm or rainstorm. In passing the new law, the legislature's clear intent was to minimize abuses in all weather-related litigation, while still providing policyholders with strong protections from improper claim handling practices....

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