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Provided by Ellen M Van Meir
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.
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.
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Ellen is wonderful and puts everything into common terms. She is quick in review and turnaround, and she does work I'm very pleased with.
Clients trust her to talk straight to them. She is consistently correct in her analysis and can do extremely complex matters.
Ellen knows our business and our aims, and is good commercially. She is smart and very experienced. Communication with clients is a key strength of hers and she has great client skills.
I have a huge amount of respect for her work.
I think Ellen is an excellent attorney. She is very good at talking the case through and she gets a good resolution.
Ellen is wonderful and puts everything into common terms. She is quick in review and turnaround, and she does work I'm very pleased with.
Clients trust her to talk straight to them. She is consistently correct in her analysis and can do extremely complex matters.
Ellen knows our business and our aims, and is good commercially. She is smart and very experienced. Communication with clients is a key strength of hers and she has great client skills.
I have a huge amount of respect for her work.
I think Ellen is an excellent attorney. She is very good at talking the case through and she gets a good resolution.