Texas Court Approves Insurer use of Staff Counsel

NU Online News Service, Nov. 12, 3:38 p.m. EDT

Kirk Hansen, director of claims for the Alliance of American Insurers, based in Downers Grove, Ill., made his comments after a Nov. 6 decision by the Texas 11th Court of Appeals.

The ruling came in a case brought by American Home Assurance Company Inc. and The Travelers Indemnity Company, which sought a declaratory judgment against a staff counsel ban by the Texas Legislature's Unauthorized Practice of Law Committee, whose members are appointed by the State Supreme Court.

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