Practice guide for Texas litigators handling the occasional insurance coverage lawsuit or confronting insurance questions in the context of a litigation practice.

The book is a practice guide for Texas litigators handling the occasional insurance coverage lawsuit or confronting insurance questions in the context of a litigation practice, complete with legal analysis, practical tips, forms, and annotations specific to Texas and Fifth Circuit practice. The book will focus on third party liability policies and related litigation and would tend to focus more on representation of policyholders, since the insurance industry tends to use coverage counsel for litigation of coverage disputes.

Texas Trial Procedure and Evidence addresses the common issues that arise throughout the various phases of trial, starting with final pretrial hearings, progressing through jury selection, opening statements, direct examinations, cross examinations, the court charge conference, closing arguments, deliberations, verdict, post-trial motions, judgment and post-judgment motions in the trial court. The special rules governing bench trials, expedited trials and justice court trials are covered.

Texas Insurance Coverage Litigation is a practice guide for Texas litigators who are handling insurance coverage lawsuits or who are confronted with insurance questions in a litigation context. It includes legal analysis, practical tips, forms, and annotations specific to Texas and Fifth Circuit practice. Part I considers third-party liability insurance and focuses on the coverage and features of these types of policies: commercial general liability, professional liability, directors and officers liability, employment practice, fiduciary liability, cyber and privacy liability, and excess and umbrella. Part II is an overview of key concepts that apply to insurance coverage lawsuits governed by Texas law, including the rules of construction and the obligations of both the insurer and the insured. Part III examines all aspects of an insurance coverage lawsuit, including pre-litigation matters, pleadings and discovery, trial considerations, and post-trial proceedings.

Insurance coverage disputes raise issues in which laws and outcomes regularly vary from state to state. Whether a claim is covered can depend a great deal on whether the case arises on one side of the street or another. It is imperative that insurance claims professionals, lawyers, brokers, risk managers, risk consultants, regulators and judges have adequate access to comparative state-law research. This book is designed to give the stakeholders in the claims process ready access to the law of all 50 states on the most important liability insurance issues to quickly learn and assess state law relevant to coverage disputes. The Second Edition includes nearly 800 new cases covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and adds a new chapter addressing Coverage for Pre-Tender Defense Costs.