Mark W. Moran

Mark W. Moran is a partner in the award-winning litigation group and he chairs the firm’s large loss property subrogation practice. Mark has more than 30 years of litigation experience.  His unique subrogation practice is exclusively focused on contingency-fee-based, large property loss recovery. Mark and his team have successfully litigated and tried to verdict dozens of property damage and construction defect cases throughout the country. Mark is a member of the National Association of Subrogation Professionals and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®.

Mark received his J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law where he served as articles editor of the St. Mary’s Law Journal.  He clerked for the Honorable Reynaldo Garza, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and prior to law school, Mark earned his B.B.A. in finance and accounting from Texas A&M University.

Representative Matters

• Represents subrogating insurers in the West Texas Fertilizer plant explosion litigation;
• Represented subrogating insurer in Bastrop forest fire litigation;
• Represented client in an insurance coverage declaratory judgment action including appeal and oral argument before the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division;
• Represented a client in a dispute arising out of a roof collapse in the gulf coast area;
• Represented a developer and insurer in a construction defect dispute involving the development of retirement condominiums in New England;
• Represented a client in a loss arising out of combustion of a painter’s drop cloths;
• Represented a client in an explosion in the Houston area against a fiber optic drilling contractor;
• Represented clients in litigation against major manufacturers in several products’ liability lawsuits;
• Represented a client in a water damage claim against a plumbing contractor for failing to properly install a water main;
• Represented a client in a roof collapse claim against a contractor for the negligent design and engineering of a roof when converting a movie theater into a church;
• Represented a client in a roof collapse claim against a landlord for failure to keep a Texas brewery in a good and safe condition;
• Represented a client in a case against an insurance agent for errors and omissions in providing coverage for its insured, arising out of a fire loss claim.

Education

Associations & Memberships

American Bar Association

State Bar of Texas

State Bar of Arizona

Dallas Bar Association

National Association of Subrogation Professionals (NASP)

Property Loss Research Bureau (PLRB)

Honors & Awards

Best Lawyers in America, Woodward White, Inc.
2018-2023

Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters
2011 – 2022

Top 100 Super Lawyers in DFW, Thomson Reuters
2016

AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review
Rated in Martindale-Hubbell

Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®

Bar Admissions

Texas, 1993

Arizona, 2011

U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas