Biography

Amy Hargis is a Partner at Raizner Slania LLP and has spent over a decade representing policyholders in litigation and arbitration disputes against their insurance companies. She received her Juris Doctorate with magna cum laude honors from South Texas College of Law, where she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar. She also served as a Note & Comment Editor on the Law Review, the Managing Student Editor for the Construction Law Journal, and earned an impressive amount of awards from professors for earning the highest grades in their courses.

Amy was in the first class of lawyers to receive the prestigious Board Certification in Insurance Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has been repeatedly recognized for her work on the Texas Super Lawyers Rising Stars list.

In her practice, Amy has successfully fought on behalf of businesses, churches, homeowner associations, hotels, and school districts to achieve favorable outcomes for her clients. Over the years, she has worked on cases from Texas to Puerto Rico arising out of underpaid or denied claims after Hurricane Ike, DFW hail storms, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Hanna, Hurricane Maria, and more. She believes that fierce advocacy, coupled with attention to detail, is essential for the successful resolution of her clients’ cases.

Amy is regularly requested to speak and write on insurance topics by the State Bar of Texas and other organizations in order to educate other lawyers on nuanced areas and developments in insurance law. Amy is a member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, the Houston Trial Lawyers Association, and the American Association for Justice.

Education

After obtaining her Bachelor of Arts in International Studies at Texas A&M University in 2008, Amy attended South Texas College of Law where she graduated with magna cum laude honors in 2011. While in law school, she was a Dean’s Merit Scholar and served both as the Note and Comment Editor for the South Texas Law Review and the Managing Student Editor for the Construction Law Journal. She was active in the advocacy program and earned five CALI Excellence Awards for her academic performance in the classroom. Upon graduation with honors, she was admitted to practice in 2011.

Publications and Speaking Engagements

  • Amy Hargis, Arbitration in First Party Property and Business Insurance Claims: Current State of the Law and the Urgent Need for Legislative Action, State Bar of Texas 19th Annual Advanced Consumer & Commercial Law Seminar, Texas Bar CLE Library, September 21, 2023
  • Amy Hargis, Post-Litigation Appraisals Are No Longer Exempt From the Purview of the Texas Insurance Code: Barbara Technologies and its Progeny, State Bar of Texas 17th Annual Advanced Consumer & Commercial Law Seminar, Texas Bar CLE Library, September 23, 2021
  • Stacey E. Burke and Amy Hargis, The Legal Community’s Response After Hurricane Harvey, March 11, 2019
  • Jeff Raizner and Amy Hargis, Hurricane Harvey and HB1774 Hit Texas Within One Week of Each Other: Separating Fact from Fiction and What You Need to Know, Right off the Press, State Bar of Texas Insurance Law Section, September 25, 2017
  • Amy Hargis, Texas Supreme Court Finds Economic Loss Rule Not a Bar to Suit Between Contractual Strangers, The Houston Lawyer, Vol. 52 No. 3, November/December 2014
  • Jeffrey L. Raizner, Andrew P. Slania, and Amy B. Hargis, Weathering the Storm of Causation Clauses, Trial Magazine, June 2013
  • Amy B. Hargis, Ethical Considerations and Requirements in the Context of Public Adjuster Contracts, Presenter at First Party Claims Conference, Providence, Rhode Island, October 2013.
  • Amy B. Hargis & Joe R. Patranella, Re-thinking Review: The Increasing Need for a Practical Standard of Review on Daubert Issues in Place of Joiner, 52 S. Tex. L. Rev. 409 (2011)