( October 20, 2026, 12:41 PM EDT) -- CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — A Texas appellate court withdrew its prior opinion and substituted a new opinion, which, like the prior opinion, reverses a lower court’s order denying dismissal and renders judgment dismissing with prejudice claims against an automobile dealership in a negligence and wrongful death suit against it related to a former employee’s death, finding that the spouse’s amended expert report did not provide the factual and scientific basis connecting the dealership’s alleged failure to act to the decedent contracting COVID-19....