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My practice focuses on insurance coverage matters, including coverage analysis, opinions and declaratory judgment actions concerning issues such as additional insured, contractual indemnity, construction defect, environmental damage and advertising injury under CGL and commercial auto policies. I have similar experience in coverage issues arising under homeowners and personal auto policies. My practice also includes first-party defense of insurance companies in breach of contract, common-law and statutory bad faith and Stowers  litigation as well as third-party defense work of individuals and corporations in auto, premise, products and environmental litigation. My experience includes extensive negotiation, motion, trial and appellate practice from initial claim to final judgment in both federal and state court.

Telephone: 210.734.7092   ext. 1129
E-Mail Marie Miller

Practice Areas: Insurance Defense, Insurance Coverage Issues

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Licensed to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Districts of Texas, and the State Courts of the State of Texas.

St. Mary's University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas,
J.D., magna cum laude, May 1991

University of Texas, Austin, Texas
B.S. Education, May 1971, Honors

Insurance Coverage
First and Third-Party Litigation

Mid-Continent Cas. Co. v. Camaley Energy Co., Inc., 364 F.Supp.2d 600 (N.D. Tex. 2005)

Mid-Continent Cas. Co. v. Oney, 2004 WL 1175569 (N.D. Tex. 2004)

Southwest Tank & Treater Mfg. Co. v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co., 243 F.Supp.2d 597 (E.D. Tex. 2003)

Bott v. J.F. Shea Co., Inc., 299 F.3d 508 (5th Cir. 2002)

Mid-Continent Casualty Company v. Swift Energy Company, 206 F.3d 487 (5th Cir. 2000)

In re National Unity Insurance Company, 963 S.W.2d 876 (Tex. App. - San Antonio 1998, no writ)

Northwestern National Lloyds Insurance Company v. Caldwell, 862 S.W.2d 44 (Tex. App. - Houston [14th Dist.] 1993, no writ)

Insurance Coverage Questions, University of Houston Law Foundation, General Practice Institute, 2001

Does Insurance Coverage Really Exist?, Stromar Educational Services, Inc., The Texas General Civil Practice Seminar, 1999, 2000 and 2001

Unfair Insurance Practices and Article 21.21 - Battered But Not Beaten, State Bar of Texas, Ultimate Insurance Seminar, 2000

Insurance Coverage Questions, University of Houston Law Foundation, Advanced Personal Injury and Insurance Law Seminar, 2000

State Bar of Texas, Insurance Law Section
Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
Federal Bar Association
San Antonio Bar Association
William S. Sessions American Inn of Courts
Defense Counsel of San Antonio
Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity

Married to Jed W. Miller

Two children: Sean Edward Miller and Christie Martelle Miller