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Texas health insurers and hospitals clashed Wednesday over whether the insurance companies face a dire threat from computer-assisted, mischief-making trial lawyers. The issue is whether plaintiffs’ lawyers, assisted by data mining companies, are about to collect billions from insurers for dragging their feet on reimbursement claims.

Kansas-based Tallgrass Development has agreed to purchase a subsidiary of Sempra U.S. Gas and Power’s 25 percent interest in Rockies Express Pipeline for $440 million.

Thanks to the successful Teach Texas pilot program in Houston-area schools this spring, future seventh graders in Texas will learn about the state’s court system and how the history of the courts is intertwined with the rest of Texas history. Along the way, the professional image of lawyers and judges is likely to be polished as shiny as a teacher’s apple. More than 8,700 seventh graders have been taught this spring by volunteer lawyer-judge teams in the Houston Bar Association presidential initiative.

Thanks to the successful Teach Texas pilot program in Houston-area schools this spring, future seventh graders in Texas will learn about the state’s court system and how the history of the courts is intertwined with the rest of Texas history. Along the way, the professional image of lawyers and judges is likely to be polished as shiny as a teacher’s apple. More than 8,700 seventh graders have been taught this spring by volunteer lawyer-judge teams in the Houston Bar Association presidential initiative.

A $19 million mineral lease fight between the city of Dallas and Trinity East Energy could be impacted by a pair of appeals pending before the Texas Supreme Court that question a municipality’s immunity from breach of contract suits.