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Candace A. Ourso
Senior Counsel
CANDACE A. OURSO is senior counsel with the firm and has ten years of litigation experience inTexas state and federal courts. Ms. Ourso's background includes all aspects of maritime litigation and resolution of insurance-coverage issues related to commercial general liability, builder's risk, commercial property, cargo, and onshore/offshore energy.
Admissions:
- State and Federal Courts in Texas
Education:
- Baylor University, B.B.A. (1994); Student Foundation, Baylor Women's League and Sigma Iota Epsilon
- South Texas College of Law, J.D. (1998); 1997 ABA National Moot Court Champion, The Order of Barristers
Professional Activities:
- State Bar of Texas
- Houston Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Mariner's Club of Houston
Representative Experience:
- $100 million coverage dispute in multiple Louisiana and Texas courts arising out of offshore property losses caused by Hurricane Rita.
- Successful trial in state court of coverage dispute arising out of workover operations after a blowout.
- $7 million coverage dispute arising out of property damage to steam turbine units in the Dominican Republic.
- $6 million cargo coverage dispute arising out of fire aboard drilling barge.
- Successful trial defense in state court of $40 million construction-risk claim arising out of a loss of cogeneration facility in the Dominican Republic.
- Coverage litigation in state court regarding applicability of EED warranties to well sidetrack operations.
- Successful defense of Jones Act seaman's claim and enforcement of contractual indemnity provisions.
- Trial of Jones Act claim in federal court and successful Fifth Circuit reversal.
Publications:
- Co-Author of Good Faith and Reasonable Consent Judgments: Gandy Does Not Answer All the Questions , South Texas Law Review, Volume 49, p.1, Fall 2007.
- Co-Author of The Insurance Law Guide: Basic Solutions to Contemporary Liability Insurance Problems, Texas Lawyer Books (anticipated publish date: July 2008)
Email address: courso@westmorelandhall.com
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Email: courso@westmorelandhall.com