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. Focused primarily on significant losses, Ellen’s practice spans a wide range of 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, as well as settlement and allocation issues involving bad faith, errors and omissions, liability, pollution, Stowers demands, 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.

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 Texas State Bar Tort & Insurance Practice Group.