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Mr. Winslett handles complex insurance litigation, professional liability defense (including lawyers, engineers, architects and insurance agents), products liability defense, toxic torts, catastrophic injury and wrongful death, construction/surety cases and first party property claims.

Practice Areas

  Insurance

  Personal Injury Defense

  Construction & Surety

  • State Bar of Texas, 1983
  • United State District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
  • Southern Methodist University (J.D., 1983) (moot court finalist)
  • North Texas State University (B.A. 1980, magna cum laude)
  • Representation primarily on defense side, but also represented plaintiff-insurers in complex commercial and insurance litigation.
  • Chair of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice and Insurance Practice Groups.
  • Handled virtually every type of insurance based litigation in courts throughout the United States.
  • Faculty member of numerous NITA-sponsored trial advocacy programs.
  • AV ® PREEMINENT Martindale-Hubbell rating
  • Texas Super Lawyers (2004-2023)
  • “Texas Top-Rated Lawyers” (Dallas Morning News & The Wallstreet Journal, 2013)
  • “Top 100 Texas Lawyers” (Texas Monthly magazine, 2006)
  • “Best Lawyers in Dallas, Insurance Law” (D Magazine, 2016)
  • Voted by peers as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Texas, as published in Texas Monthly magazine
  • RLI Ins. Co. v. Caliente Oil, Inc., 469 F. Supp. 3d 729 (W.D. Tex. 2020)
  • Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Huser Const. Co., Inc., No. H-18-0787, 2019 WL 1255756 *1 (S.D. Tex. Mar. 19, 2019) (affirmed by Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Huser Const. Co. v. Huser Const. Co., Inc., 797 Fed. App’x 183 (5th Cir. 2020) (mem .op.))
  • Mt. Hawley Inc. Co. v. Slay Engineering, 390 F. Supp. 3d 794 (W.D. Tex. 2019)
  • Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. JBS Parkway Apartments, No. 18-CV-0092-DC, 2020 WL 8970681 (W.D. Tex. Dec. 30, 2020)
  • Frequent lecturer in seminars sponsored by State Bar of Texas including “The Ultimate Insurance Seminar.”
  • Hanson v. Greystar Development & Const., LP, 317 S.W.3d 850 (Tex. App. — Fort Worth 2010, pet. denied)
  • Lennar v. Great American et al, 2005 WL 1324833 (Houston [14 Dist] 2005)
  • Insurance Bad Faith: The Insurer’s Prospective.
  • Roberts v. Healy, 991 S.W.2d 873 (Tex. App. Houston [14th Dist.] 1999)
  • Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Giles, 950 S.W.2d 48 (Tex. 1997)
  • U.S. Fire v. Williams, 955 S.W.2d 267 (Tex. 1997)
  • Stephen Ferguson v. Mt. Hawley Insurance Co., Civil Action No. 2:03-CV-381 (Eastern District of Texas – Marshall Division) (2004)
  • Bayou Bend Homes v. Scottsdale Insurance Co., 2006 WL 2037564
  • TIG Ins. Co. v. North America Van Lines, 170 S.W.3d 264 (Tex. App. – Dallas 2005, no pet.)
  • RLI Ins. Co. v. Maxxon Southwest, Inc, 265 F. Supp. 727 (N.D. Tex. 2003)
  • Pierre v. Newman, Davenport & Epstein, 2006 WL 1522613 (Tex. App. – Dallas)
  • Mt. Hawley Ins. Co. v. Wright Materials, Inc., 2005 WL 2805565 (N.D. Tex. 2005)
  • West American Ins. Co. v. RLI Ins. Co., 698 F.3d 1069 (8th Cir. 2012)
  • Scottsdale Ins. Co. v. Mt. Hawly Ins. Co., 2011 WL 9169946 (5th Cir. 2012)
  • In re Crawford & Company, 458 S.W.3rd 920 (Tex. 2015)
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