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Aranda v. Insurance Co. of North America

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Overruled
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
748 S.W.2d 210
Decided
Confirmed treatments
2
Flagged citations read
57 of 57
Citing cases (total)
57
Treatment dates
1992–2012
Overruled
A reviewed court has overruled this case. All 57 flagged citations to Aranda v. Insurance Co. of North America have been read. The 2 confirmed treatments are listed below.
More on how this was screened

The Supreme Court of Texas overruled Aranda’s common-law claim against workers’ compensation carriers in Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ruttiger; an earlier appellate decision had declined to extend Aranda to a self-insured municipality.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

57 later cases cite Aranda v. Insurance Co. of North America; 57 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled

  • The Supreme Court of Texas overruled Aranda’s common-law claim for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing against a workers’ compensation carrier.

    Texas Mutual Insurance Co. v. Ruttiger · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    We also overrule Aranda, 748 S.W.2d 210. We hold that an injured employee may not assert a common-law claim for breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing against a workers’ compensation carrier.
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Limited

  • The court declined to extend Aranda’s good-faith duty to a self-insured municipality because governmental immunity barred the employee’s claim.

    Jackson v. City of Galveston · Court of Appeals of Texas, Fourteenth District, Houston · filed

    Jackson argues the reasoning in Aranda is no less compelling when the employer is a self-insured municipality. The Legislature, however, has seen fit to shield a municipality from tort liability when the city is performing a “governmental” rather than a “proprietary” function.
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