Practice Areas:
Expert Witness Services
With over 29 years experience in commercial litigation and appeals, Hamp Skelton offers expert witness services on numerous topics, including insurance coverage law, insurance claims handling, antitrust topics, class actions, legal ethics and attorney fees. He provides consulting expert services, expert reports and trial testimony. The following is a partial list of recent expert witness assignments:
Expert report and testimony for plaintiffs in a legal malpractice case; issues involved legal ethics and the appropriateness of recommending class action treatment for claims in a "vanishing premium" life insurance case.
Expert testimony for an insurer on attorneys fees in extra-contractual litigation involving duty to defend issues.
Expert testimony in an insurance coverage matter involving certificates of insurance containing erroneous information about coverages afforded.
Trial testimony on topic of whether an attorney could have reasonably segregated billings between causes of action affording attorney fees recovery and causes of action that do not, in face of contention that the work was "inextricably intertwined".
Expert reports and testimony on a variety of coverage law topics in extra-contractual litigation.
For a reference, contact any of the attorneys who employed him as an expert:
Mark Schwartz at (512) 439-6930, or mschwartz@msa-llp.com;
Don Taylor and/or David Dunham at Taylor & Dunham (512) 473-2257, dtaylor@taylordunham.com and ddunham@taylordunham.com;
Chris Martin and Kevin Cain at Martin, Disiere, Wisdom & Jefferson, (713) 632-1700, martin@mdjwlaw.com and cain@mdjwlaw.com;
Bill Parrish: (512) 539-3628, Bparrish@dpelaw.com
Please e-mail: hskelton@skeltonwoody.com or call him (512) 651-7000 for references from other lawyers throughout the state.
