ATTORNEY

Kevin
Parish

Kevin Parish’s practice focuses on trial and appellate work on first- and third-party insurance coverage matters, as well as construction, transportation, and professional liability cases.

Kevin was born and raised in Houston but has lived all over the state, including, Austin, College Station, Lubbock, and now Dallas. He is a Marine Corps veteran and also an alumnus of Texas Tech and Texas A&M. He spends his free time with his wife, son, and daughter.

Contact  

  • Insurance Coverage

  • Construction Litigation

  • Professional Liability

  • Transportation

  • General Litigation

  • Obtained a favorable Texas Supreme Court opinion holding that a settlement agreement between certain directors and officers of a corporation and the corporation’s shareholders was inadmissible and not binding in order to establish coverage under the applicable D&O policy because the settlement was not the result of a “fully adversarial trial.”

  • Obtained summary judgment for insurer of trucking broker because insured was not a “motor carrier” under the FMCSRs.

  • Obtained an appellate decision affirming a favorable grant of summary judgment for insurer in a premises liability case.

  • Obtained summary judgment for liability insurer based on exclusion in policy for false statements made on insurance application.

  • Obtained summary judgment for UIM insurer when claimant had not established his legal entitlement to recover from the underlying defendant-driver.

  • Obtained a dismissal on behalf of a commercial insurer based on claimant’s failure to comply with certain provisions of Texas’ Pandemic Liability Protection Act (PLPA).

  • Texas

  • New Mexico

  • Northern, Southern, and Eastern Districts of Texas

  • District of New Mexico

  • B.A. Harding University (2014)

  • J.D. Texas Tech School of Law (2019)

  • LL.M. Texas A&M School of Law (Risk Management) (2021)

  • Dallas Bar Association

  • Texas Young Lawyers Association

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to confront only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when it came time to die, discover that I had not lived.”
—Henry David Thoreau