Overview Brandon E. Berg has experience handling a variety of casualty litigation claims including multiple semi-tractor/trailer accidents, premises liability claims, automobile negligence claims, uninsured/underinsured motorist claims, dram shop claims, product liability claims, Medicare claims and wrongful death and injury claims. He has first-chair and second-chair experience in state and federal courts throughout Texas. |
Representative Experience
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Represented local trucking company and truck driver in auto fatality accident involving the death of wife and injury to spouse.
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Represented local trucking company and truck driver in auto fatality accident involving the death of son and injuries to daughter.
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Represented local apartment complex in action involving the death of two children and injury to a third child.
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Represented industrial company in action involving amputation to worker’s arm.
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Represented local apartment complex in action involving death of three children in apartment fire.
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Represented national restaurant chain in dram shop action involving death of two children and personal injury to two other parties.
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Represented local construction company in action involving death to construction worker.
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Defended owners and managers of malls, restaurants, apartment complexes and other commercial properties in general premises liability, security, elevator/escalator litigation.
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Defended professional truck drivers and several long-haul, regional, and local trucking companies in the defense of claims made for negligent hiring, training, supervision, retention as well as violation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s rules and regulations.
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Professional and Community Activities
- State Bar of Texas
- Houston Bar Association
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- Texas Association of Defense Counsel (TADC)
- Defense Research Institute (DRI)
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Speeches and Presentations
- Medicare Liens and Settlements Following United States v. Stricker; Insurance Journal; October 2011 (co-authored with Brian S. Martin)
- Medicare: What Are We Doing Now?, Texas Insurance and Tort Law Update 2011
- Subrogation and Liens: Basic Principles and Practical Considerations, Texas Insurance and Tort Law Update 2010
- Settling It Once and For All: What You Need to Know About Liens, Texas Insurance and Tort Law Update 2010, Thompson Coe Houston Seminar
- What Do We Do Now? Investigating, Evaluating and Defending the Trucking Accident Claim, presented to the Chartered Property & Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) Society, November 2009
- Investigating, Evaluating, and Defending Catastrophic Claim, Texas Insurance and Tort Law Update 2009, Thompson Coe Houston Seminar
- Extra-Contractual Liability Claims in UM/UIM Cases, presented to the Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Summer 2007 Meeting (co-author)
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| Industry-Specific Biographies Education - Texas Tech University School of Law, J.D., 2004, cum laude, Legal Research Board, Phi Delta Phi
- Texas Tech University, B.B.A., 2001, Finance, summa cum laude
Bar Admissions - Texas, 2004
- United States District Court Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas
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