PJC Business 2024

S UBJECT I NDEX

Performance (contract), as acceptance, 101.10, 101.11 Personal injury (DTPA damages) exemption, 102.22, 115.10 Piercing the corporate veil, ch. 108 alter ego, 108.3 circumvention of statute, 108.6 common-law theories, 108.2 contract-related cases, 108.2 direct personal benefit, 108.2 evasion of existing legal obligation, 108.5 injustice, 108.2 justification of wrong, 108.7 LLCs, 108.2 monopoly, 108.8 protection of crime, 108.7 sham to perpetrate a fraud, 108.4 Predicate findings, 115.56 specific performance, 115.57 Prejudgment interest contract cases, 115.3 DTPA/Insurance Code cases, 115.9, 115.13 exemplary damages, 115.38 fraud, 115.19, 115.20 future damages, 115.3, 115.6, 115.9, 115.13, 115.14, 115.18–115.22, 115.27, 115.28, 115.30 good faith and fair dealing, 115.14 interference with contract, 115.22 negligent misrepresentation, 115.21 Whistleblower Act, 115.27 wrongful discharge ( Sabine Pilot doctrine), 115.26 Preponderance of the evidence, Introduction 4(e), 100.3 Preservation of charge error, 116.1 Price, contract, 101.13 Principal and agent authority of agent (contracts), 101.15 exemplary damages, 115.39 ratification of purported agent’s act (contract), 101.16

Privilege Fifth Amendment, 100.11 generally no inference, 100.10 judicial-proceeding, 110.9 Producing cause deceptive trade practices, 102.1, 102.7, 102.8 Insurance Code, 102.14, 102.21 Professional services (DTPA), 102.22 Profit disgorgement (fiduciary duty), 115.16 Promise Texas Insurance Code, 102.25–102.28 Texas Property Code, 101.50, 101.51 Proportionate responsibility, 115.36 deceptive trade practices, 102.22 Protection of crime (piercing), 108.7 Proximate cause, 100.13, 103.1, 115.14 Publication of private facts, 110.17 damages, 115.35 Punitive damages. See Damages, exemplary false (statutory fraud), 105.9 future action (fraud), 105.3B Promissory estoppel, 101.41 damages, 115.6 Prompt payment of claims

Q Quantum meruit, 101.42 construction contracts, 101.46 damages, 115.7

R Ratification (contract), 101.16 Real estate, as “goods” under DTPA, 102.2, 102.3, 102.5, 102.9

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