AREAS OF EMPHASIS

  • Insurance Coverage, including Subrogation Litigation
  • General Business Litigation
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
  • Member, State Bar of Texas
  • Admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas
  • Admitted to practice in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
  • Presented Speech entitled "Developments in Texas Case Law Regarding Liability Insurance Coverage for "Mental Anguish" Claims Post-Trinity v. Cowan, 8th Annual Ultimate Insurance Seminar (Spring 1999)
  • Presented speech entitled "An Update On the Duty to Defend Under Texas Law," Dallas Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice Section (March 27, 2003)
  • Injury: Coverage for Business Torts," 1st Annual Advanced Insurance Law Course, State Bar of Texas (March 26, 2004)
  • Authored "General Liability Coverage for Business Torts, 28 Tex. Bus. Lit. J. 33 (Fall 2006)

NOTEWORTHY MATTERS

  • Recovered subrogation settlement (50% of costs of defense of mutual additional insured, and all of my fees) in Employers Mut. Casualty Co. v. Illinois Nat'l Ins. Co., No. 5763 in the 349th District Court, Anderson County, TX
  • Recovered subrogation settlement (100% of costs of defense of insured/indemnitee, and all of my fees) in Employers Mut. Casualty Co. v. Anadarko Petroleum Corp., No. 2008-174 in the 123rd District Court, Panola County, TX
  • Obtained award of defense and indemnity for an underlying suit, and an award of all of my fees in Mycon Gen. Contractors, Inc. v. C&M Contracting, Inc., American Arbitration Association No. 71 110 00713 07
  • Prosecuted contract and tort claims in Texzon Utilities, Ltd. v. Strategic Energy, L.L.C., American Arbitration Association No. 71 198 00063 08 working relationship restored via negotiated settlement with new contract between the parties
  • Recovered subrogation settlement (90% of costs of defense of mutual additional insured, and 90% of my fees) in Employers Mut. Casualty Co. v. Admiral Ins. Co., No. 4:08cv187 in the U.S. Dist. Court, Eastern Dist. of Tex., Sherman Division
  • Obtained release and discharge for innocent stakeholder in Merritt v. PowerMax Energy, L.L.C., No. 09-C-3649 in the County Court at Law No. 1, Ellis County, Texas
  • Prosecuting contract and tort claims in Big 4 Steel Services, L.P. v. Proem Design-Build, Inc., No. 2009-40057 in the 333rd Judicial District Court, Harris County, Texas
EDUCATION
  • 1991 to 2007 -- attorney with a civil litigation practice at 3 different downtown Dallas law firms
  • 1981 to 1990 -- CPA and accounting supervisor with TXO Production Co. in Dallas
  • prior to 1981 -- carpenter and oil field laborer