Deceptive Trade Practices

Deceptive Trade Practices

• Deceptive
• DTPA – Deceptive Trade Practices Act
  • Consumers
  • Agents
    • Metropolitan v. Haney
    • Crown v. Casteel

• 2000 – LR – Deceptive Trade Practices – Consumer Protection Act, by A. Michael Ferrill and Leslie Sara Hyman – 35p
  • In Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Haney,⁸ a life insurance agent brought DTPA claims against MetLife complaining of inaccurate policy illustrations generated by computer software that MetLife sold to its agents.
  • The Texas Supreme Court revisited this issue in Crown Life Insurance Co. v. Casteel,⁵² a case involving claims by insurance policyholders against a life insurer and agent and a cross-claim by the agent against the insurer. 

• 2000 – LR – Insurance Law, by H. Michelle Caldwell – 43p
  • Casteel’s claims arose from Crown Life’s alleged misrepresentations of policy illustrations prepared by Crown Life and presented by Casteel to his clients.
  • Instead, Crown Life’s alleged misrepresentations to Casteel involved internal product information for Casteel’s use in the sales of policies. ²³⁴