Ellen M Van Meir

Practice Areas

Ellen has more than two decades of experience providing sophisticated counsel to primary and excess insurers on issues with respect to coverage and claims handling. Ellen’s practice is focused primarily on significant losses and spans numerous industries, including construction, finance, manufacturing, oil and gas, and trucking.

Ellen represents her clients in complex disputes arising out of catastrophic bodily injury, cyber, environmental, intellectual property, professional malpractice, and property damage claims. She is adept at providing counsel on matters related to policy contract rights and obligations, good faith duties to insureds, and settlement and allocation issues involving bad faith, errors and omissions, liability, pollution, Stowers demand, and umbrella and excess coverage.

Ellen has also handled appellate matters in various Texas appellate courts and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fifth, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Circuits.

Ellen is Board Certified in Insurance Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Professional Memberships

Ellen is a member of the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section, American College of Coverage Counsel (ACCC), Defense Research Institute (DRI), and the Texas State Bar's Tort & Insurance Practice Group.