A court of the Eastern District of Texas denied an insured’s motion to vacate an appraisal award and granted summary judgment to an insurer in a dispute under a homeowner’s insurance policy, adopting a magistrate’s recommendation and holding that the appraisal award was binding and could not be set aside because the insured’s complaints about the sufficiency of the repair estimate reflected only a disagreement with the umpire’s judgment rather than a mistake of fact or other recognized ground for vacatur under Texas law.
