
Houston, TX (PRWEB) May 21, 2012
Houston Texas (Case No. 2010-37580 In the District Court, 269th Judicial District, Harris County, Texas) Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P., the policyholders? law firm, won a verdict last week for its small-business client in Houston, Harris County, Texas.
After a week-long trial, court record indicate that the jury found United National Insurance Company liable to the policyholder for $ 1.4 million. The suit arose out of damages to a seven story office building as a result of hurricane Ike which struck the Texas coast in September 2008. United National had paid out approximately $ 2.4 million to its insured for the loss during the claims process. However, the jury found that the insurance company breached the contract by failing to properly investigate and underpaying the claim. The jury also determined that the insurance company engaged in bad faith during the claim and assessed a penalty against them for their conduct.
Shannon Loyd, partner at Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P., said that after application of penalties under the Prompt Payment of Claims Act, the judgment should total $ 1.6 million. This verdict is the second Hurricane Ike recovery for Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P., coming on the heels of a $ 4 million verdict on behalf of an apartment complex owner against Lexington Insurance, a unit of American International Group,(Case No. 09-CV-1238 In the District Court, 56th Judicial District, Galveston County, Texas) .
About Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P.
Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P. represents insurance policyholders in disputes arising out of the bad faith actions and poor claims handling by their insurance companies. According to the Texas Lawyer, Gravely & Pearson L.L.P. was responsible for the largest insurance verdict in the state of Texas in 2011. Gravely & Pearson, L.L.P. lawyers are consistently recognized for their work at both the trial and appellate level.
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On her deathbed, Beaufils’s mother leaves him with a quest and a clue: find your father, a knight of King Arthur’s court. So Beaufils leaves the isolated forest of his youth and quickly discovers that he has much to learn about the world beyond his experience. Beaufils’s innocence never fails to make his companions grin, but his fresh outlook on the world’s peculiarities turns out to be more of a gift than a curse as they encounter unexpected friends and foes.With his constant stream of wise fools and foolish wise men, holy hermits and others of rather less holiness, plotting magicians and conniving Ladies, Gerald Morris infuses these medieval stories with a riotous humor all his own.
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