email: dawn.hansen@tbjbs.com
Experience
Dawn Woelfel Hansen is a partner with the law firm of Touchstone Bernays. Ms. Hansen's practice focuses on insurance related matters, including coverage opinions, declaratory judgment actions, and bad faith litigation. Ms. Hansen also has extensive experience before the Texas appellate courts.
Areas of Practice
Appellate
Coverage
Civil Litigation
Litigation Matters
Counseled leading insurance companies on insurance coverage and bad faith claims.
Prosecuted over fifty declaratory judgment actions on all aspects of insurance coverage.
Drafted hundereds of coverage opinions.
Defended numerous bad faith lawsuits and claims.
Handled over a hundred original proceedings, motions and briefs in appellate courts.
Representative Cases
Ramirez v. Hariri, 165 S.W.3d 972 (Dallas Court of Appeals 2005)
McKidd v. Trinity Lloyd’s Ins. Co., 155 S.W.3d 307 (Dallas Court of Appeals 2004)
Stroop v. Northern County Mutual Ins. Co., 133 S.W.3d 844 (Dallas Court of Appeals
2004)
Batte, et al. v. Joyce Hendricks, 137 S.W.3d 790 (Dallas Court of Appeals 2004)
Bituminous Cas. Corp. v. Maxey, et al., 110 S.W.3d 203 (Houston [1st Dist.] 2003)
In Re Trinity Universal Ins. Co., 64 S.W.3d 463 (Amarillo Court of Appeals 2001)
Yard v. Daimlerchrysler Corp., 44 S.W.3d 238 (Fort Worth Court of Appeals 2001)
Green v. Morris, 43 S.W.3d 604 (Waco Court of Appeals 2001)
Highland Park Shopping Village v. Trinity Universal Ins. Co., 36 S.W.3d 916 (Dallas Court of Appeals
Education
Syracuse University School of Law, J.D. 1992
Southern Methodist University, B.A. with departmental distinction 1989
Publications
Author “ Top Ten Case Update 2005”
Author “Security Premises Liability”
Co-Author "Coverage Under A Commercial General Liability Insurance Policy".
Co- Author “The Texas Personal Automobile Insurance Policy”
Author “To Err is Human, But You Better Preserve For Appeal 2003”
Co-Author “Indemnity Agreements: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”
Co-Author “Insurance Update: Case Law and Consumer Protection”
Co-Author “Consumer Protection 2002”