Name: Christopher W. Martin
Item: Christopher W. Martin
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Christopher W. Martin is the Founding Partner of Martin, Disiere, Jefferson & Wisdom, L.L.P. in Houston, Texas. In the last two decades he has tried more than 100 jury trials in 14 different states defending insurance bad faith or insurance coverage claims. Texas Monthly has named him one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Texas six different times. For the last sixteen years, Chambers USA named him the Top Insurance Attorney in Texas. He is the author of three legal treatises on Texas Insurance Law. He served as the Professor of Insurance Law at the University of Houston Law School for ten years. He specializes in the insurance claims and lawsuits involving questions of coverage, industry practices, claims handling, underwriting, legal exposure, inter-insurer disputes, and other legal issues of interest to insurers and their insureds. Three times over the past decade, he was named one of the top five “Go To” Insurance Lawyers in Texas by The Texas Lawyer. From 2004 to 2019, Texas Monthly magazine named him a Texas “Super Lawyer.” The International Who’s Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers named him as one of the leading insurance and reinsurance experts in the United States from 2006 to 2019.

As a lawyer, he represents parties in civil litigation and appeals involving bad faith allegations, insurance claims and coverage disputes in state and federal courts across Texas and other jurisdictions. Mr. Martin frequently serves as a mediator of complex insurance claims and insurance lawsuits. He is also retained regularly to serve as an expert consultant or expert witness in insurance disputes. He has extensive experience in market conduct evaluations, corporate policy development, and employee training in the areas of insurance claims handling, claim evaluations and insurance company operations. He regularly provides training and audit services to some of the nation’s largest insurers. Mr. Martin also has extensive experience in coverage disputes and litigation arising out of general liability, property and casualty, life and health, excess and umbrella, surplus lines, and workers’ compensation policies. Mr. Martin is licensed to appear before the United States Supreme Court, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, all U.S. District Courts in Texas and Oklahoma, and all Texas and Oklahoma state courts.

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