Umbrella Expert Witnesses

Houston, Texas

Insurance, Legal - Standard of Care, Bad Faith, Auto, COI, Hurricane Insurance, Homeowners Association Insurance, nonsubscriber Insurance, Marine Insurance, Control of Well Insurance, O&G, Oil & Gas Insurance, Directors & Officers Insurance, Hotels, Pollution, E&O, Errors & Omissions, Surety, Property & Casualty, Environmental, Umbrella

 Insurance professional with over 34 years’ experience in property and casualty insurance policies, form interpretations, and claims handling.  Insurance career spans serving in insurance agency roles of insurance broker, claims facilitator, marketing, agency partner, and risk manager.  Producer of thousands of commercial, personal, life, and health insurance portfolios, with extensive experience handling complex hurricane, flood and catastrophic fire claims.  Experienced expert witness on insurance standard of care, bad faith, errors and omissions, and property and casualty insurance matters.

Glen Allen, Virginia

Insurance - Bad Faith, Insurance Coverage, Claims Handling, Claims Standards, Policy Limit Settlement Demands, Good Faith, CGL, Cyber Insurance, Directors & Officers, Errors & Omissions, Auto, Homeowners, Commercial Insurance, Commercial Property, Brokers, Umbrella, Surplus and Excess, Crime & Fidelity, London Market, Policyholders

Expert in insurance bad faith, claim‑handling standards, policy limit settlement rejections, and insurer conduct. I am trusted by counsel, carriers and policyholders. I've tried 38 cases to verdict, so I understand that counsel need from an expert witness. Even while in-house, I played the role of policyholder counsel in my mock jury exercises against my outside coverage counsel. With my extensive bad faith litigation and teaching experience I am well positioned to assist as an expert in your insurance cases. I currently service as Litigation & Insurance Counsel for Conservice, LLC. Previously, I was an Associate General Counsel at USAA for bad faith litigation, a Fortune 100 P&C insurer with $27bn (2025) in gross written premium. Prior to that role I was Head of Insurance Litigation for Markel Insurance, a multi-national specialty insurer in the Fortune 300 with $15.5bn in gross written premium in 2025. As the Head of Insurance Litigation for Markel I owned responsibility for all ...