Denise Weiner is a Partner in the Atlanta office of Hall Booth Smith. Denise serves as the past president of the Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the State Bar of Georgia and is a frequent speaker at the Southern Loss Association, Atlanta Claims Association, Southeastern Arson Seminars, Georgia Fire Investigators Association and for many national insurance carriers. She is also the past president of the Georgia Chapter of the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators. She is consistently recognized as a Georgia Rising Star by Super Lawyers .
Experience
Construction
Denise provides advice and counsel to general contractors, subcontractors, owners, developers, and design professionals in cases involving construction defects, accidents, and contracts. Her practice is focused on the litigation of construction cases including mediation, arbitration, and trials in both state and federal courts throughout Georgia.
Denise advises national insurance carriers and construction entities on matters of risk management, insurance coverage analysis, drafting and review of construction related agreements and documents, construction defects, performance and payment disputes, mechanics liens, OSHA compliance, insurance and regulatory, or workplace and other catastrophic injury claims or damage to property. She has served as a Special Assistant Attorney General in litigation involving highway construction for the Georgia Department of Transportation.
General Liability
Denise‘s litigation experience has included third party general liability cases throughout the Southeast. These have included trucking and automotive incidents as well as products and premise liability claims, including wrongful death and others. Her broad experience allows her to represent a varied range of client issues related to general liability claims.
Insurance Coverage
Denise has extensive experience in providing insurance coverage opinions regarding life, property, and casualty coverage issues including CGL policies, bad faith, uninsured motorists, causation, and excess coverage under commercial and personal policies.
Property / SIU
Denise has been actively involved in the Property/SIU group since she began practicing law. She has successfully handled first party claims involving arson and fraud from claims denial up to and including trial.
Transportation
Whether broker, carrier, cargo or liability claims, or coverage issues, Denise has broad litigation and coverage experience. Having represented carriers, brokers, operators, and insurers engaged in trucking and the transportation industry, Denise has been involved in catastrophic injury cases involving liability issues unique to trucking and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations.
Recognition
•The Best Lawyers in America , Litigation - Insurance, Best Lawyers, 2025-2026
•Georgia Rising Star, Super Lawyers; 2010, 2013-2016
Presentations
•Effective Ethical Evaluations: Avoiding Bad Faith in Property Loss
CLM Atlanta Educational and Networking Event; June 29, 2023
In the Press
58 HBS Attorneys Recognized as The Best Lawyers in America Award Recipients
August 16, 2024
Hall Booth Smith, P.C. is pleased to announce that 58 lawyers have been included in the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America
AV Preeminent®: The highest peer rating standard. This rating signifies a large number of the lawyer’s peers rank him
or her at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal knowledge, communication skills and ethical standards.
Distinguished: An excellent rating for a lawyer with some experience. This rating indicates the attorney is widely
respected by their peers for high professional achievement and ethical standards.
Notable: This rating indicates that the lawyer has been recognized by a large number of their peers for strong ethical standards.
