Bill Text: TX HB3338 | 2013-2014 | 83rd Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to insurers as proper parties to certain actions for damages.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-03-25 - Referred to Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence [HB3338 Detail]
Download: Texas-2013-HB3338-Introduced.html
83R8723 AJA-D | ||
By: Turner of Tarrant | H.B. No. 3338 |
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relating to insurers as proper parties to certain actions for | ||
damages. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Subchapter A, Chapter 17, Civil Practice and | ||
Remedies Code, is amended by adding Section 17.006 to read as | ||
follows: | ||
Sec. 17.006. SUIT FOR DAMAGES AGAINST INSURED DEFENDANT. | ||
In a suit for recovery of damages in which a defendant in the suit is | ||
an insured under a policy of liability insurance that may provide | ||
coverage for the damages, the insurer who issued the policy, | ||
including a county mutual insurance company, a Lloyd's plan | ||
insurer, a surplus lines insurer, or a reciprocal or interinsurance | ||
exchange, is a proper party to the suit. | ||
SECTION 2. The change in law made by this Act applies only | ||
to an action commenced on or after the effective date of this Act. | ||
An action commenced before the effective date of this Act is | ||
governed by the law applicable to the action immediately before the | ||
effective date of this Act, and that law is continued in effect for | ||
that purpose. | ||
SECTION 3. This Act takes effect September 1, 2013. |