Overview
Eric is a first-party property insurance litigator who has spent his career defending some of the world’s largest insurers in all sizes of claims, from residential disputes to large commercial market matters.
His experience spans a broad range of property risks, including hail, wind, hurricane, lightning, fire, freeze, flood and theft, under commercial property insurance, builder’s risk, time element / business interruption and extra expense coverages. Eric achieves superior results by leveraging factual and legal defenses early in the case, while measuring risks appropriately.
Strategy, planning and execution are the mainstays of Eric’s practice.
Resolving disputes reasonably with public adjusters, contractors and policyholder attorneys is always preferable to litigation. Eric works diligently with carriers, experts and the insureds’ representatives to explore the opportunity for pre-suit resolution.
Eric also has multiple seven-figure subrogation recoveries for his insurance carrier clients and their insureds. His loss recovery experience includes an oil well blowout in the Texas panhandle, a structural collapse in Eastern Europe, and prolonged damage to a luxury residential structure built on a central Texas cliff.
In addition to his litigation and pre-litigation practice, Eric has drafted multiple policy forms and endorsements that are being used in insurance products, including cosmetic damage endorsements, pathogen and communicable disease exclusions, and appraisal endorsements.
Eric is also experienced at navigating the complexities of trans-border disputes, including currency exchange issues, evidentiary competence, language complications, and cultural awareness.
Eric speaks and writes Spanish fluently and has represented one of the largest companies in Latin America.