Omar Galicia

Practice Areas

Omar counsels and represents clients on insurance coverage matters, claims handling issues, bad faith litigation and personal injury and commercial litigation matters, with an emphasis on complex, multi-party cases. Omar handles a broad range of litigation matters in state and federal courts across Texas and the U.S., and has significant experience in first-party and third-party insurance disputes involving commercial property, commercial general liability, commercial automobile, professional liability, directors and officers, errors and omissions, employment liability and excess and umbrella policies. Omar provides advice and analysis to clients on coverage issues, bad faith avoidance, pre-litigation strategy and dispute resolution and litigation. He has handled and resolved numerous cases involving wind, hail and other weather-related claims and personal injury and commercial disputes.

Professional Memberships

State Bar of Texas, Insurance Law Section

Dallas Bar Association

Dallas Hispanic Bar Association

Dallas Bar Association Tort & Insurance Practice Section, Board

Claims Litigation Management Alliance

Publications

Insurance Law, 60 SMU L. Rev. 1113 (2007)

Insurance Law, 61 SMU L. Rev. 877 (2008)

Application of the Notice-Prejudice Rule, Texas Lawyer, July 27, 2009