Practice Areas - Reorganization of Insurers and Managed Care Organizations
- Demutualization, Conversion and Mergers of Insurers and Managed Care Organizations
- Regulation, Rehabilitation and Insolvency of Insurers and Health Maintenance Organizations
- Reinsurance Contracting, Disputes and Litigation
- Insurance Litigation
- Regulation of Third-Party Administrators
- Formation and Development of Emerging Enterprises
- Merger, Reorganization and Acquisition of Small and Medium Sized Businesses
- Asset Recoveries, Sales, and Preservation
| - Representation of Established Companies
- Professional Liability Litigation
- General Civil Litigation
- Federal Bankruptcy as related to Insurance Insolvency
- Professional Malpractice Defense
- Mediation
- General Business Law
- Counsel to Investment Committees
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| University | University of Texas, B.A., with honors, 1977 |
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| Law School | University of Texas, J.D., 1980 |
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| Admitted | 1980, Texas, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth and Fifth Circuits, U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas and U.S. Supreme Court |
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| Memberships | Travis County (Member, Litigation Section) and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Tort and Insurance Practice) Bar Associations; State Bar of Texas; National Association of Insurance Commissioners (Member, Liquidators' Task Force, 1982-1983; Advisory Committee, 1985—; Chairman: Finance Subcommittee, Advisory Committee Health Maintenance Organizations, 1986; Receivers' Handbook Committee, 1991); National Association of Health Maintenance Organization Regulators-National Association of Insurance Commissioners (Member, Advisory Committee; Model Act Revision Committee); National Association of Managed Care Regulators; International Association of Insurance Receivers (Principal Charter Member); International Association of Insurance Receivers Health Care Task Force (Certified Insurance Receiver-Multiple Lines). |
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| Languages | French and Spanish |
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| Born | Santiago, Chile, March 19, 1954 |
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| Biography | Counsel for Texas Judicial Insurance Receiver, 1980-1983. Qualified Mediator, Texas, 1990. Author: "Texas Health Maintenance Organizations: Lessons from Insolvency," Texas Health Law Reporter, Vol. 1, Nos. 4 and 5, October and December, 1984; "Insurer Insolvency: A Primer for Malpractice Insureds," Texas Health Law Reporter, Vol. 2, No. 5, December, 1985; "What to Do if You Believe Your Malpractice Carrier is Insolvent," Texas Medicine Vol. 83, No. 3, March, 1987; "New Legislation Affects Fees, Taxes for Texas' Third-Party Administrators," Houston Insurance News, December 1, 1987; "Health, HMO and Related Entity Insolvencies," American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, Law and Practice of Life Insurance Company Insolvency, June 1993, and June 1996; and "Rehabilitation of Managed Care Organizations: A Thumbnail Sketch of Certain Key Considerations," The Insurance Receiver, International Association of Insurance Receivers, Winter 1999.
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| Reported Cases | In re Family Health Services, Inc., et al., 101 Bankr. 618, 1989; National Home Ins. Co. v. State Corp. Comm'n, 838 F. Supp. 1104 (E.D. Va. 1993); In re First Financial Enterprises, Inc., 99 Bankr. 751, 1989. |
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| ISLN | 908561245 |
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| Transactions | Corporate transactions include demutualization of Trigon Insurance Company, conversion to for profit of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Missouri; litigation arising from the mutualization of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc.; sponsored demutualization of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas, Inc.; proposed conversion of CareFirst of Maryland, Inc. and acquisition by WellPoint Health Networks, Inc.; conversion and sale of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Colorado, and conversion to non-profit mutual of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Dakota; Receivership or conservation proceedings for the following, among other, companies: Baldwin-United Companies, Executive Life Insurance Company, Fidelity Bankers Life Insurance Company, Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company, United Capital Life Insurance Company, General Protective Life Insurance Company, First United Trust Company, United Bankers Life Insurance Company, Texas Prepaid Health Plans, Group Health of El Paso, Metrocare, East Texas Health Plans, Maxicare Health Plans, MedCenters of North Dakota, Foundation Health Plan of New Jersey, Mobile County Mutual Insurance Company, Commodore County Mutual Insurance Company, Kenilworth Insurance Company, Cotton Belt Insurance Company, Superior Lloyds Insurance Company, Colonial Title Insurance Company, Reciprocal of America, and Shenandoah Life Insurance Company. |
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