Crown Life Insurance Company v. Casteel

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that the one-satisfaction rule applies “when defendants commit technically different acts that result in a single injury”
• holding that the plaintiff had standing to litigate all of his asserted claims with the exception of claims requiring consumer status
• concluding that trial court erred by combining five invalid DTPA theories with eight valid DTPA theories in single jury question
• holding that the issue of how much settlement credit the defendant was entitled to became moot when the judgment against the defendant was released
• recognizing that a “settlement or release does not automatically require vacating an opinion”
• stating that Rule 277 implicitly mandates that the jury be able to base its verdict on legally valid questions and instructions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).