Attorneys Serving the Community is hosting the Heart & Sole 5K on Saturday, Feb. 16 at White Rock Lake. All proceeds from the event will go directly to Hope’s Door, a shelter and counseling center that offers comprehensive programs and services designed to help break the cycle of domestic violence for women in Dallas and Collin counties.  

Amy Stewart PC is pleased to announce that Shelbi Barnhouse and Amy Kincaid Berry have joined the firm as Of Counsel.

 

A recent California federal court decision highlighted the importance to carriers of making sure insureds understand the coverage limitations of the insurance policies they are buying, particularly when coverage changes year to year.  In Classic Distributing and Beverage Group v. Travelers, the court ordered the carrier to cover  a wage and hour suit despite an exclusion to the contrary because the carrier failed to properly inform the insured that the coverage did not exist.

We had a beautiful time at our Book Launching Party a few weeks ago. Check out the gorgeous photos here.

Please join us at the Book Launch Party for Amy Stewart’s new book, “Texas Insurance Coverage Litigation: The Litigator’s Practice Guide,” on Tuesday, Nov. 27, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Central 214 at the Palomar Hotel, 5680 N. Central Expressway.

We’ll have hors d’oeuvres, wine and complimentary valet. If you can join us, please RSVP.

Can’t make the party but would like the book? Click here to order and get 20% off before the end of November!

Among other wailing and teeth-gnashing in the wake of President Obama’s re-election are industry predictions that insurance companies will be subject to enhanced federal oversight during the second term. Based on early reactions, the federal microscope seems to be most unwelcome.

Amy Elizabeth Stewart, of Dallas’ Amy Stewart PC, will present “Insurance 101: Fundamentals of Liability Insurance for In-House Counsel” to the Dallas Bar Asociation’s Corporate Counsel Section on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at noon at the Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Ave. The one-hour presentation provides one hour of MCLE credit. There is no charge for DBA members, although there is a lunch buffet available for purchase. Non-members must pay a fee in order to receive MCLE credit. For more info ...

According to Business Insurance (free registration required), Aon Risk Solutions is teaming up with RPX Insurance Service Inc. to offer up to $2.5 million in coverage against non-practicing entities, a.k.a. patent trolls, the bane of the technology industry. Patent trolls--firms that are established for the sole reason of purchasing patents and suing over their alleged infringement--are a growing problem, Business Insurance reports: According to RPX, the number of patent infringement ...

For those of you waiting breathlessly for the Federal Insurance Office’s reports on reinsurance and insurance regulation, you may want to find a comfortable chair. Some analysts predict the overdue reports probably won’t be coming out until after the November election. Apparently, nobody is looking to alienate state regulators or the insurance industry at this delicate time. Why poke a bear if you don’t have to? Nevermind that these reports were due month ...

DALLAS--Texas Super Lawyers has included insurance coverage lawyer Amy Elizabeth Stewart, of Dallas’ Amy Stewart PC, on its 2012 list of the state’s most highly regarded attorneys. This is Ms. Stewart’s fourth consecutive year on the list. She had previously been named to the Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars list. The complete list appears in the October issues of Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers magazines.   Fewer than 5 percent of all eligible Texas attorneys are named ...

Insurance giant AIG, the company that gave us the “too-big-to-fail” ethos in the first place, was notified by the feds this week that it may officially be deemed too big to fail and, thus, subject to enhanced scrutiny and regulatory oversight. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, “too big to fail” is the nomenclature commonly applied to banks and other financial institutions the failure of which would significantly threaten the United States' financial stabil ...

Amy Elizabeth Stewart will co-present “Jury Speak: What Matters to Jurors in Insurance Cases?” at the 17th Annual Insurance Law Institute at noon on October 19 at the Courtyard Marriott in Austin. The Institute is presented by the Insurance Law Section of the State Bar of Texas and the University of Texas School of Law. Ms. Stewart will present with jury consultant Kacy Miller, of Dallas’ CourtroomLogic Consulting. Their seminar, which offers .75 hour of CLE, will discuss the cha ...

Amy Elizabeth Stewart has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2013 for her work in Insurance Law. To compile the list, Best Lawyers, the oldest peer-review publication in the legal profession, conducts a rigorous, peer-review survey that includes more than 4 million confidential evaluations by other lawyers in the same and related specialties. Best Lawyers asks attorneys who they would refer cases to if they were unable to handle a matter themselves. “I’m ha ...

Amy Elizabeth Stewart, of Dallas’ Amy Stewart PC, will present a continuing legal education seminar on Friday, Sept. 21, at the Texas Bar CLE’s 4th Annual Business Torts Institute. Ms. Stewart’s presentation on Insurance Coverage Issues will cover duty to defend, reservation of rights, and failure to place coverage by the broker. It provides a half hour of CLE credit. The entire, two-day course provides 13.25 hours of CLE, including 2 hours of ethics. It is held at the Hilton Dal ...

Amy Stewart’s presentation on the ethical considerations in the tripartite relationship is available here. Ms. Stewart has spoken and written extensively on this issue, most recently at a June 19 event for in-house counsel.  The tripartite relationship is the relationship between the insurer, its insured and defense counsel engaged by the insurer to represent the insured in a potentially covered third-party claim. The presentation, “Navigating the Ethical Current: Evaluating Conflicts an ...