Mark Kincaid, an insurance law attorney who created seminal case law and spent decades influencing the Texas Legislature on insurance bills, passed away this week from a stroke. He was 56.

Kincaid, the president-elect of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association and a partner in George Brothers Kincaid & Horton in Austin, suffered a stroke on New Year’s Eve and was unconscious until his death Jan. 19. His funeral service is Jan. 22 at 2:30 p.m. at St. David’s Episcopal Church in downtown Austin.