Texas Insurance Coverage Litigation is a practice guide for Texas litigators handling insurance coverage lawsuits or confronted with insurance questions in the 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.
NEW IN THIS EDITION
Analysis of whether electronic data can be considered as tangible property and covered under Commercial General Liability (CGL) policies due to the evolution of risks like social engineering and ransomware cyberattacks
Coverage of recent major disruptive data breach and cyberattack events warranting the need to change the language of the hostile/warlike act exclusion by insurers
Discussion of a 2024 case stemming from a phishing attack, determining if recovered phishing funds trigger insurance allocation
Overview of an eight-corners analysis to determine whether an insurer had a duty to defend under a policy containing a breach of contract exclusion
Amy Elizabeth Stewart is the founder and managing principal of Amy Stewart Law, a boutique law firm in Dallas that assists corporate policyholders with strategic advice relating to prelitigation claim negotiations and coverage denials, indemnity and insurance provisions in third-party contracts, insurance procurement and renewal issues, and complex and high-stakes insurance coverage and bad faith litigation.
Amy, a Virginia native and graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law, has been recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in Texas by Texas Super Lawyers and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell. She was elected to the American College of Coverage Counsel in 2013, and her accolades include being named one of D Magazine’s Best Lawyers in Dallas and one of the Top 25 Women in Business by the Dallas Business Journal in 2011. In 2017, she received the Outstanding Female Lawyer – Small Firm Award from the Dallas Women Lawyers Association. Since 2015, she has served on the State Bar of Texas Committee for Pattern Jury Charges and continues her commitment until 2024.
She is actively involved as a sustaining member of Attorneys Serving the Community, a Dallas legal philanthropic organization. In 2016, Amy completed Leadership Dallas, the Dallas Regional Chamber’s flagship leadership development program, aimed at providing the city with an ongoing source of diverse leaders who are committed to serving as catalysts for positive change in the Dallas area. In 2025, she was honored to be elected to the inaugural class of the Inn’s Lex Mercatoria Fellows, in recognition of her dedication to furthering legal scholarship in the area of insurance law.
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