Defense Lawyers' Professional Responsibilities - Part 1: Excess Exposure Cases

Texas Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 3, p. 599, February 2000

82 Pages Posted: 16 Aug 1999 Last revised: 7 Aug 2010

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Ellen S. Pryor

UNT Dallas College of Law

Charles Silver

University of Texas at Austin - School of Law

Date Written: 2000

Abstract

This is the third in a series of articles on insurance defense ethics. It is grounded in a loss-minimization account of liability insurance contracts, according to which the contract seeks to construct an artificial harmony of interest between a carrier, a policyholder, and their joint agent - a defense lawyer - for the purpose of minimizing the sum of the costs - including indemnity and defense costs - that are associated with a covered claim. The article contains no formal economic analysis, but does advance the economic analysis of the law that governs lawyers.

Suggested Citation

Pryor, Ellen S. and Silver, Charles M., Defense Lawyers' Professional Responsibilities - Part 1: Excess Exposure Cases (2000). Texas Law Review, Vol. 78, No. 3, p. 599, February 2000, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=173389

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