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Amy Boyea is a partner in the firm’s Dallas/Fort Worth office. Her practice focuses on civil and commercial litigation, including financial services litigation, life, health and disability insurance litigation, factoring litigation, business torts, employment-related litigation, and construction and energy industry litigation. Ms. Boyea has experience in the defense of personal injury and insurance liability claims, and extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts and before arbitration panels. She has represented her clients in state and federal courts throughout Texas and in states including Oklahoma, New York, Arizona, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Oregon, California, Illinois, Wyoming, and Ohio.
Ms. Boyea represents financial services companies in cases involving premium financing, agent and broker compensations, unfair settlement practices, credit life and disability, market conduct, bad faith insurance claims, viatical litigation and breach of contract. A portion of her practice is devoted to representing insurers in actions relating to secondary market transactions of life and annuity products throughout Texas and Oklahoma.
Prior to becoming a partner at Edison, McDowell & Hetherington, Ms. Boyea was a trial attorney at Bracewell & Giuliani LLP.
Represents numerous life, health and disability insurers in first party litigation matters throughout Texas and around the country.
Represents insurance company defendants in purported class actions and individual cases involving Sections 412(i) and 419A(f)(6) of the Internal Revenue Code.
Represented employers and insurers in employee benefit and insurance matters in various jurisdictions throughout the United States including ERISA actions involving benefit claim disputes.
Successfully obtained dismissals for multiple insurance carriers and employers under ERISA for claims alleging wrongful denial or termination of benefits.
Represented a major energy provider in a week-long trial relating to the alleged breach of a defense and indemnification agreement.
Represented an energy provider in a multi-million dollar arbitration focusing on the construction of a LNG gas plant and involving numerous claims and counterclaims for breach of contract and negligence.
J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 2000
B.S., summa cum laude, Texas Christian University, 1996
Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
Dallas Bar Association
Houston Bar Association
Tarrant County Bar Association
Texas Young Lawyers Association
Dallas Young Lawyers Association
Houston Association of Women Attorneys,
Past Membership Chair
University of Virginia School of Law, Class of 2000 Class Agent
Defense Research Institute
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