A motor vehicle insurance policy’s subrogation agreement gives the insurance company the right to sue for and recover the amount that the insured might have recovered from a person who negligently causes injury. Maryland Casualty v. Jones, 358 S.W.2d 677 (Tex. Civ. App. – 1962, no writ).
Typical Texas standard automobile insurance policy language does include a clause specifically allowing the insurance company to recover all that it has paid, aside from uninsured/underinsured motorist benefits and personal injury protection (PIP) payments. An insurance company’s right to subrogation derives from right of the insured, and is limited to those rights; there therefore can be no subrogation where the insured has no cause of action against the defendant because subrogees always stand in the shoes of the one whose rights they claim.
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