Counsel, Dallas

Practice Description

David S. White focuses his practice on insurance coverage law and commercial litigation. He represents insurance professionals and policyholder clients in coverage and bad faith litigation and counsels corporations, corporate directors, and individuals on strategies to strengthen risk management programs through insurance and contractual indemnification arrangements.

Mr. White's areas of expertise include commercial general liability and property programs, directors' and officers' liability, pollution legal liability, employment practices, commercial automobile, fiduciary liability, aviation, professional liability, workers' compensation and employers' liability, intellectual property coverage, homeowners, life, health, and disability policies.

Representations

• Represented a food manufacturer for business interruption after one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history

• Represented a major oil and gas company in an additional insured coverage dispute after a refinery explosion

• Represented an international agri-business for D&O coverage in a securities action against its directors

• Represented a hospital in premises coverage under a liability policy for an on-site shooting

• Represented an international oil and gas company to recover a loss to a sub-sea pipeline after a gas leak

• Represented a software manufacturer after denial of defense and indemnity under a general liability policy

• Represented a chemical manufacturer for pollution liability coverage in three states

• Represented an energy company for employment practices liability coverage after a sexual harassment claim

• Represented insurance professionals and non-insurance clients concerning coverage and bad faith litigation and opinions

Press Releases/In the News

• "Recession A Boon For Insurance Groups," www.Law360.com; January 26, 2009
  

• "State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2008," Kevin O'Keefe's Real Lawyers Have Blogs Blog; December 01, 2008
  

• "Eagle Rock Energy Partners acquires Millennium Midstream Partners," Texas Lawyer; November 03, 2008
  

• T&K Assists Eagle Rock in $235.5 Million Acquisition; October 07, 2008
  

• "Thompson & Knight Attorney's Insurance Blog Named Among Top 50 by LexisNexis," dBusinessNews.com; September 30, 2008
  

• T&K Attorney's Insurance Blog Named Among Top 50 by LexisNexis; September 25, 2008
  

• "Critics: Texas Supreme Court favors big business," The Dallas Morning News; November 25, 2007
  

• T&K Attorney Publishes Article on Risk-Shifting Agreements in Construction Contracts; February 27, 2007
  

• "Insured's Obligation to Indemnify Third Party for Negligence Included in Transfer of Assets," Insurance Law & LitigationWeek; December 04, 2006
  

Presentations/Publications

• Client Alert: Fifth Circuit Decision Provides Lessons for Drafting Indemnity and Insurance Clauses, April 19, 2010
  

• "2008 Year in Review: Insurance Law," Texas Bar Journal, Vol. 72, No. 1, Page 36, January 2009
  

• "What Law Governs? Choice-of-Law Road Map for Texas Insurance Disputes," 13th Annual Insurance Law Institute, University of Texas School of Law, October 24, 2008
  

• "Policy Changes/Additional Insured Issues," Railroad Insurance Management Association 2008 Annual Conference, September 2008
  

• "Supreme Court Update -- Where Are We Going?," Insurance Roundtable Discussion, Dallas Bar Association, Tort & Insurance Practice Section, March 2008
  

• "A Significant Occurrence -- Lamar Homes, Inc. v. Mid-Continent Cas. Co.," Texas Lawyer, December 2007
  

• "California Court Broadens 'Advertising Injury' Coverage in Standard CGL Policy," June 2007
  

• "Risk-Shifting Agreements In Construction Contracts: Why Insurance May Not Work The Way It Used To," The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, January 2007
  

• "What Happened to Additional-Insured Endorsements And Why Do I Now Have to Read Indemnification Agreements?," DFW RIMS Monthly Luncheon, November 2006
  

• "Additional-Insured and Indemnification Agreements: When Will Courts Enforce Them?," The Real Estate Finance Journal, Summer 2006
  

• "Risk Shifting Provisions in Construction Contracts," T&K Breakfast Seminar for Construction Professionals, Dallas, Texas, February 2006
  

• "Why D&O Policies Should be Examined by a Coverage Attorney," Directors Monthly, January 2006
  

• Client Alert: Dallas Court Creates Trap for the Unwary, November 2005
  

• Client Alert: Preserving Insurance Coverage for Losses Caused by Hurricane Katrina, September 2005
  

• Client Alert: Additional-Insured Agreements at Risk, August 2005
  

• "What Every Oil & Gas Lawyer Must Know About Insurance and Indemnification," Review of Oil and Gas Law, Dallas Bar Association Energy Law Section, August 2005
  

• "What You Absolutely Must Know About Directors and Officers Liability Coverage," Texas Association of Defense Counsel 2005 Spring Meeting, Austin, Texas, April 2005
  

• "Insurance Coverage for Contractual Indemnification Agreements and the 2004 Additional Insured Endorsements ? Y2K or Asian Tsunami?," Dallas Bar Association Energy Law Section, February 2005
  

• "Environmental Law," 2002 Annual Survey of Texas Law of the SMU Law Review, Summer 2003
  

• "Insurance Coverage for Environmental Claims: Environmental Law," 56 SMU Law Review 1652, Summer 2003
  

• "Contractual Indemnification and Additional Insured Issues," T&K Texas Tort Liability and Coverage Seminar (for insurance professionals), October 1999
  

• "Y2K Readiness and Insurance Issues," American International Insurance Group, February 1999
  

• "Y2K Readiness and Insurance Issues," Risk Enterprise Management, October 1998
  

• "Intellectual Property and Y2K," T&K Texas Tort Liability and Coverage Seminar (for insurance professionals), September 1998
  

• "Coverage for Sexual Misconduct and Employee Related Claims," T&K Texas Tort Liability and Coverage Seminar (for insurance professionals), October 1997
  

• "Bad Faith Litigation," Advanced Civil Litigation Seminar, University of Houston Law Foundation, March 1997
  

• "Disputes Among Insurance Companies," Advanced Personal Injury Seminar, University of Houston Law Foundation, July 1995
  

• "Auctioning the Corporate Bastion: Delaware Readjusts the Business Judgment Rule in Revlon, Inc. v. MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc.," 40 Southwestern Law Journal 1117, 1986
  

Activities

• Member, American Bar Association; Tort & Insurance Practice Section

• Member, Dallas Bar Association; Insurance Law Section; Antitrust Section

• Member, Risk and Insurance Management Society, DFW Chapter

• Member, DRI-The Voice of the Defense Bar; Insurance Law Committee

Blogs

• Law and Insurance