Deceptive Trade Practices

  • Deceptive
  • DTPA - Deceptive Trade Practices Act
  • 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