Leo J. Jordan

Of Counsel

Leo Jordan has concentrated his practice in insurance coverage disputes.

About

Leo J. Jordan

For almost 45 years, Leo has concentrated his practice in insurance coverage disputes representing insurance companies and underwriters in the United States and London markets in state and federal courts and in arbitrations. Leo’s practice primarily involves representation in all manner of first-party property insurers on commercial claims, but also includes guidance and counseling insurers on good faith compliance, defense of bad faith allegations, statutory litigation defense, statutory actions, arson and fraud cases, UM/UIM lawsuits and insurance coverage issues under property and associated lines, life and liability policies, as well as ERISA, health and accidental death policies.

Admissions

Texas 1981
U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, District of Colorado, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Affiliations & Activities

State Bar of Texas, Insurance Law Section
Dallas Bar Association, Tort & Insurance Practice Section

Leo is a member of the American Bar Association, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas Claims Association, Defense Research Institute, State Bar of Texas, Loss Executives Association, and the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators. Leo was proud to serve on the Rules Committee for the 2016 Democratic National Convention.

From 1997-2007, he served as Vice-Chairman of the Property Insurance Committee of the American Bar Association. He also served the American Bar Association as Young Lawyers Representative (1987-1989), Vice-Chairman, Communications Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Section (1990-1992), Associate Editor, Tort and Insurance Law Journal (1990-1992), Vice-Chairman, Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee (1990-1993), Regional Editor for the Property Insurance newsletters, and Fire and Homeowner’s Annotations.

Leo has been rated by Martindale-Hubbell® as “AV® Pre-eminent™ (5.0)” since his first year of eligibility in 1986. This is peer recognition of the highest ratings for professional ethics and legal abilities. Best’s Directory of Recommended Insurance Attorneys and Adjusters has also recommended him (2013-2024) and the firm.

Awards & Honors

Education

The University of Illinois College of Law, J.D. 1981

Illinois Wesleyan University, B.A. Summa Cum Laude, 1977

Publications & Presentations

“Good Faith Compliance in Suspected Arson & Insurance Fraud Claims,” November 2017 National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators, Insurance Fraud Seminar

“Appraising the Property Loss,” November 2015, The University of Texas School of Law, 20^th Annual Insurance Law Institute

“The Ethics of Appraising the Property Loss,” July 2015, Honorable Order of the Blue Goose

Panel Discussion on “Wind v. Water?” February 2015; American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee, Annual Meeting. Leo recommends review of In the matter of Wind v. Water, Volume 50, No. 3-4 (Spring-Summer 2015, pp. 841-874), authored by his father who spent his career in the law department of State Farm Insurance

“Adjusting and Appraising the Business Interruption Claim”; Presentation to the American Bar Association Property Insurance Law Committee, 2012

“An Introduction to Builder’s Risk Insurance and AIA Requirements,” by Leo John Jordan, Construction News, February 2010

Chapter on “Jury Issues and Policy Interpretation” in Property Insurance Litigator’s Handbook, American Bar Association (2d ed. 2013; 1st ed. 2007)

Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law, 38 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 657 (2003)

Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law, 37 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 657 (2002)

Recent Developments in Property Insurance Law, 36 Tort & Insurance Law Journal 549 (2001)

“Payment and Denial of Claims,” Insuring Real Property (Matthew Bender & Co. 1989)

“What Price Rebuilding?”, 19 Brief 17 (Fall 1990) – This article was cited by SR International Business Ins. Co. v. World Trade Properties LLC, 2006 WL 3073220 (S.D.N.Y. October 31, 2006), in which Judge Luttig in a 9/11 case recognized Leo as an expert in the property insurance field;

Authored numerous articles and spoke at national conventions (ABA, DRI) and locally (Dallas and Fort Worth Claims Associations) on property insurance, bad faith, and insurance coverage issues to attorneys, claims representatives, and claims executives.

Leo is authorized by the Texas Department of Insurance to provide continuing education to adjusters and claims executives.

Notable Cases

Security National Insurance Company v. Waloon Investment, Inc., 384 S.W.3d 901 (Tex. App.--Houston [14th Dist. 2012] 2012, no pet.);

In re Security National Insurance Company, No. 14-10-00009-CV, 2010 WL 1609247 (Tex. App.--Houston [14th Dist.] Apr. 22, 2010, orig. proceeding) (mem. op.);

In re Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, No. 09-03-276CV (Tex. App.--Beaumont, Oct. 30, 2003);

Data Specialties, Inc. v. Transcontinental Insurance Company, 125 F.3d 909 (5th Cir. 1997);

Barrientos v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company, 911 F.2d 1115 (5th Cir. 1990), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1072 (1991);

Moody v. Commercial Ins. Co. of Newark, NJ, 753 F. Supp. 198 (N.D. Tex. 1990);

National Union Fire Ins. Co. v. Hoffman, 746 S.W.2d 305 (Tex. App.--Dallas 1988, no writ);

Reeves v. Federal Savings & Loan Ins. Corp., 732 S.W.2d 380 (Tex. App.--Dallas 1987, no writ);

Hochheim Prairie Farm Mut. Ins. v. Burnett, 698 S.W.2d 271 (Tex. App.--Fort Worth 1985, no writ).