Court Opinion

ID: 9775808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:09:28.335571+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:31.030959
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BUTTS, Justice,
dissenting.
I join the dissent, agreeing with all three grounds for reversal set out in J. Peeples’ dissenting opinion. The case should be reversed on the merits. There is no evidence to support a bad faith claim. The case should be reversed and rendered.
I would add simply as a suggestion that this is an underinsurance case, where the person who recovers for breach of good faith and fair dealing was the sole cause of the tragedy of the deaths and disabilities and, further, was the insured with minimum coverage (through no fault of the insurer). This is an appropriate case for our supreme court to look at the relationship of the insured and insurer as a “two-way street.” This is a case where the covenant of good faith and fair dealing should apply to both the insurer and the insured. See Walker, Comparative Bad Faith—Its Time Has Come In Texas, 55 Tex.B.J. 792 (1992).