Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:42:13.310712+00
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OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
KENNEDY, Justice.
Both appellant and appellee have filed motions for rehearing in this cause. Appel-lee raises no arguments which it did not advance on original submission. Its motion for rehearing is overruled.
Appellant’s motions for rehearing and for correction of judgment request that we grant judgment in his favor for prejudgment and postjudgment interest. Tex.R. App.P. 80(b) authorizes this Court to reverse the judgment of the court below and render the judgment that the court below should have rendered. Appellant included in its second amended petition a prayer for “interest, both before and after judgment, at the highest legal rate.” Appellant is entitled to prejudgment interest as a matter of right from the date the insurance company denied liability. See Smith v. National Resort Communities, Inc., 585 S.W.2d 655, 660 (Tex.1979); Republic National Bank v. Northwest National Bank, 578 S.W.2d 109, 116 (Tex.1979); Miles v. Royal Indemnity Co., 589 S.W.2d 725, 736-37 (Tex.Civ.App.—Corpus Christi 1979, writ ref'd n.r.e.). Appellant is also entitled, by statute, to postjudgment interest. Golden v. Murphy, 611 S.W.2d 914, 916 (Tex.Civ.App.—Houston [14th Dist.] 1981, no writ); Tex.Rev.Civ.Stat.Ann. art. 5069— 1.05 (Vernon Supp.1986).
Accordingly, appellant’s motion for rehearing is granted, and judgment is rendered that appellant recover, in addition to the damages set forth in our original opinion, prejudgment interest at the legal rate, to run from March 4, 1985, the date on which appellee’s first amended answer was filed. Judgment is further rendered that appellant recover postjudgment interest at the legal rate, to run from February 4, 1986.
Appellant’s motion to supplement the record, filed after our original opinion was handed down, is overruled.
BENAVIDES, J., not participating.