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COVID-19 Response Team

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Insurance Litigation

RSUI v. New Horizon Kids Quest
Thompson Coe Succeeds in 8th Circuit Reversing $6M Day Care Abuse Coverage Suit
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Labor & Employment

Sara Rios, et. al. v. Archer Luxury Travel, LLC
Thompson Coe Saves Client $100Ks in Damages After 3-Day Trial
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Cyber Liability Coverage

Landry’s Inc. v. The Ins. Co. of the State of Pa.
Thompson Coe Prevails in $28M Cyber Suit Arising From National Retailer Data Breach
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Appellate/General Liability

Shinogle v. Whitlock
Thompson Coe Obtains Texas Supreme Court Victory in Shooting Accident Suit
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Product Liability

McCarthy v. Metropolitan Life
Defense Verdict After 3 Week, $10M Products Liability Trial
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Catastrophic Injury

Givens, et al. v. Anderson Columbia, et al.
Thompson Coe And Team Successfully Defends $200 Million Wrongful Death Claim
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Attorneys licensed in 28 states
Austin, Houston, Dallas,
New Orleans, Saint Paul
Trials and Arbitrations in 2019
Band 1 law firm for Insurance in Texas from 2004 – 2020
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CE/CLE & HR Credit Available
By Law360 for Female Percentage in Firms Sized 150 – 299

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Thompson Coe Included in Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms" List 10th Consecutive Year

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Louisiana Tort Reform Lite: How Personal Injury Litigation Will Change in 2021

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Law Alert: Fourteenth Court Of Appeals Narrows Scope of Texas Medical Liability Act

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Thompson Coe Obtains Texas Supreme Court Victory in Shooting Accident Suit

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Thompson Coe Ranked 16th Among Mid-Sized Firms in Law360 Glass Ceiling Report

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Twenty Thompson Coe Attorneys Recognized as 2020 Super Lawyers

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General Liability and Excess Liability Webinar: Stowers Update and Considerations For the Insurers in a Time of Runaway Verdicts

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Minnesota Supreme Court Holds Hospital Liable For Negligence of Independent Contractor Physicians

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Strategies for Handling Property Claims to Avoid Bad Faith

Upon completion of this course, the adjuster should have a better understanding of (1) what is bad faith conduct; (2) who can be held liable for bad faith conduct; (3) the adjuster’s roles and...

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General Liability and Excess Liability Webinar: Stowers Update and Considerations For the Insurers in a Time of Runaway Verdicts
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COVID-19 Response Team
Resources and Updates

COVID-19 Response Team - Resources and Updates

Thompson Coe’s COVID-19 Response Team is here to guide businesses and carriers through understanding their obligations and strategies during this uncertain time, as well as keeping them informed of the most recent developments. We are also providing constantly updated information regarding state responses in Texas, Louisiana and Minnesota, and federal measures implemented to fight the spread of coronavirus.

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Insurance Litigation
RSUI v. New Horizon Kids Quest

Thompson Coe Succeeds in 8th Circuit Reversing $6M Day Care Abuse Coverage Suit

Dallas partners, Rick Harmon and Jody Stasney, recently secured a reversal from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in RSUI Indemnity Company v. New Horizon Kids Quest, Inc., on behalf of their client, an excess liability insurer. The opinion provides guidance in an area of unsettled law concerning an excess insurer’s rights and obligations when jury verdicts are not allocated between covered and uncovered damages.

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Labor & Employment
Sara Rios, et. al. v. Archer Luxury Travel, LLC

Thompson Coe Saves Client $100Ks in Damages After 3-Day Trial

Houston partner, Cory Reed recently received a (virtual) defense verdict in a 3-day breach of contract trial involving a non-compete agreement, saving his client from $100s of thousands in out-of-pocket damages.

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Cyber Liability Coverage
Landry’s Inc. v. The Ins. Co. of the State of Pa.

Thompson Coe Prevails in $28M Cyber Suit Arising From National Retailer Data Breach

Ellen Van Meir, Mariah Quiroz and Nicholas Low successfully obtained judgment on behalf of their client, prevailing on cross motions for summary judgment, in a lawsuit seeking insurance coverage for $28 million in damages arising from a nationwide data breach.  A national retailer sought coverage under multiple commercial general liability policies issued by Thompson Coe’s client for significant monetary damages assessed by issuing banks against the retailer’s payment card processor after consumer payment information was stolen during a data breach.

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Appellate/General Liability
Shinogle v. Whitlock

Thompson Coe Obtains Texas Supreme Court Victory in Shooting Accident Suit

Dallas Partners Rick Harmon, Heather Phelps, and Cassie Dallas, and Austin Partner Wade Crosnoe obtained a significant appellate victory in the Texas Supreme Court for shooting range Alpine Industries, Inc. and its employee Lane Thomas Shinogle. The Texas Supreme Court held that the docket control order, which set the date for serving expert reports for testifying experts, did not extend the deadline for serving a 90-day statutory expert report because it did not explicitly reference the statutory deadline.

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Product Liability
McCarthy v. Metropolitan Life

Defense Verdict After 3 Week, $10M Products Liability Trial

On December 19, 2018, after a three-week trial, Partner Zandra E. Foley won a defense verdict in Suffolk Superior Court, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Catastrophic Injury
Givens, et al. v. Anderson Columbia, et al.

Thompson Coe And Team Successfully Defends $200 Million Wrongful Death Claim

After over two weeks of trial, Thompson Coe’s Partner and lead counsel, Jennifer Aufricht, with co-counsel Eddie Morales of Langley & Banack and Darrell Barger of Hartline, Dacus, received a defense verdict in a $200 million wrongful death lawsuit against highway construction client Anderson Columbia Co., Inc. Two of the three surviving families argued traffic control warning signs required by TXDOT were removed by workers. The jury found no liability on Anderson Columbia and found it in full compliance with TXDOT’s Traffic Control Plan.

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