Sec. 147.085. ADMISSIBILITY OF STATEMENT RELATING TO COMPUTER DATE FAILURE  


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  • (a) The following are not admissible to prove liability for computer date failure:

    (1) an offer to settle under Section 147.048;

    (2) notice required under Section 147.081(a)(1);

    (3) except as provided by Subsection (b), evidence of furnishing or offering or promising to furnish a correction or cure for a present or future computer date failure; or

    (4) except as provided by Subsection (c), a statement made in the process of correcting, curing, or attempting to correct or cure a present or future computer date failure.

    (b) Evidence of furnishing or offering or promising to furnish a correction or cure for a present or future computer date failure is admissible to the extent it is evidence of a guarantee or warranty of the correction or cure and the claim is for breach of the guarantee or warranty.

    (c) A statement made in the process of correcting, curing, or attempting to correct or cure a present or future computer date failure is admissible if:

    (1) the statement is false;

    (2) the statement is made with knowledge that it is false; and

    (3) the claimant relied on the statement to the claimant's detriment.

Added by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 128, Sec. 2, eff. May 19, 1999.