The Texas Supreme Court considered whether communications between the insurer’s lawyer and the employer of the injured employee were privileged. See In Re XL Spec. Ins. Co., 2012 Tex. LEXIS 568 (Tex. June 20, 2011). XL was Cintas Corporation’s workers’
Supreme Court of Texas Considering Important Issue of Privileged Communications Between Employer and its Insurance Company
Recently, the Supreme Court of Texas heard oral arguments in an interesting case regarding the outer limits of the attorney-client privilege with respect to a workers’ compensation insurance carrier attorney’s communications with its insured. The communications at issue were made between…