Taylor: 1000 more lawsuits filed since Hurricane Ikes 2 year annivesary&"

Chairman of House Elections Committee life-long insurance industry member Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas Were now up to legal fees of about $128 million dollars to pay about $176 million in actual damages. Not to mention weve had about 1000 more lawsuits filed just since the 2 year annivesary of Hurricane Ike" said State Rep. & House Republican Caucus Chairman now Senate District 11 Candidate Larry Taylor. Some of these attorneys one in particular is still advertising" Taylor said.   About a year ago I read about this (year old Hurricane Ike) settlement and the numbers at the time seemed alarming ... $180 million dollars in actual damages and $80 million was paid to the lawyers" Taylor said.

At the end of the day when I got the actual numbers ... after fighting some of those very same attorneys who got those settlements yet had tried to deny me a legislator the ability to get the information from a quasi-state agency on what the details of that settlement were ... the actual numbers were about $101 million dollars in actual damages and the attorneys were paid $55 million dollars."

 These are property claims ... either your propertys damaged or its not. Its either fixed or its not. This isnt something that requires years & years of litigation" Taylor an insurance industry member for decades said.   As Chairman of the House Republican Caucus Chairman and now Senate District 11 Candidate Larry Taylor was Insiders Power Player of the Week" during the 1st week of October. When I took on the Chairmanship ... it was actually the Session before last (2009) and we had 76 Republican Members at that point I saw the next coming election as being the most crucial election probably for many years in Texas because of redistricting coming up and we had to do well in that (2010) election" said Taylor (R-HD 24) who now is a Texas Senate District 11 Candidate.            I saw for years leading up to my Caucus Election for years the Democrats had out-manuevered us. They were spending time together strategizing doing things and I knew we had to do a much better job of making sure that we were well-prepared and positioned for that next election" Taylor said. We picked up our pace and it paid off."