Michael P. Doyle

Mike’s trial practice includes the representation of plaintiffs in maritime personal injury, international and trans-national personal injury, including work and holiday injury claims, and insurance bad faith.

Mike is Board Certified in Personal Injury Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and is a Fellow in the National College of Advocacy of the American Association for Justice. Mike has obtained many multi-million dollar verdicts, judgments, and settlements. These results include:

• Jury verdict in 2004 of $2.56 million for a Jones Act seaman injured in the Gulf of Alaska
  (Ella Pike v. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. Reduced on appeal to $2,141,716.75 – Attorneys Fees: $936,772.52; Expenses: $77,625.97; injury – unoperated cervical herniation and leg lacerations);
• Jury verdict in 2006 of $4.3 million in an insurance bad faith case
  (Lloyd Snyder v. Cunningham Lindsey – Attorneys’ Fees – $1,000,000; Expenses – $37,708.88.);
• Jury verdict in 2007 of over $1.5 million increased to $1,752,767.44 with interest for a boat captain injured offshore Angola (Attorneys Feees: $788,745.35; Expenses $49,603.52; injury – unoperated spinal injuries and post traumatic stress disorder);
• Jury verdict in 2008 of $2.16 million for a passenger in a helicopter crash landing in the Gulf of Mexico
  (Attorneys Fees: $820,000; Expenses: $117,502.70; injury – lumbar injuries requiring surgery and post traumatic stress disorder);
• Jury verdict in 2008 of $1.6 million for a seismic operator injured in the Gulf of Mexico Jury
  (Attorneys Fees: $472,500; Expenses $61,135.03; injury – cervical injuries requiring surgery and unoperated shoulder injuries);
• Jury verdict in 2009 of $4.5 million for a marine mooring master injured in a personnel basket transfer in the Gulf of Mexico
  (Attorneys Fees: $1,860,000; Expenses: $105,452.29; injury – operated knee and lumbar injuries); and
• A verdict of $1.22 million for a leverman onboard a dredge vessel working near Memphis, Tennessee in 2009
  (Attorneys’ Fees: $400,000; Litigation Expenses: $47,276.54; injuries – operated lumbar spine injuries).

Mike’s personal injury practice includes the representation of Jones Act and foreign seaman in disputes arising in U.S. waters and around the world. He also represents a number of U.K. residents injured in the U.S. on holiday, as well as working people from various countries who have been injured as a result of the actions of multinational companies.

Mike’s insurance bad faith practice includes the representation of workers’ compensation claimants who have had their claims delayed and denied by their insurers and adjusters. In addition, Mike has represented insureds and policy holders against domestic liability and excess insurers, and in transnational coverage disputes against U.K. and E.U. underwriters and company market insurers.

• “Workers’ Compensation Bad Faith”, GOOD HANDS, GOOD NEIGHBORS AND BAD FAITH, Arizona Association for Justice/Arizona Trial Lawyers Association, Phoenix, Arizona, December 6, 2013
• “Critical Thinking and Building Your Case from the Ground Up”, Nonverbals, Anchoring and Framing, American Association for Justice, 2011 Winter Convention, Miami, Florida, February 8, 2011
• “Maritime Personal Injury”; Seaman’s Remedies, Defenses, and Procedural Issues, Houston, Texas, February 1, 2011
• Michael Patrick Doyle, faculty member and lecturer, Essentials of Civil Trial Law, “Openings, How to Make Your Case from the Beginning and Stay There”, “Direct Examination”, and “Cross-Examination of the DME”, Knoxville, Tennessee, October 2010, American Association for Justice (AAJ)
• Michael Patrick Doyle, faculty member, THE PERSUASIVE EDGE: The Art of Communication and Influence with Eric Oliver, AAJ Headquarters, Washington DC, October 2010, American Association for Justice (AAJ)
• Insurance Update and Bad Faith Litigation, Michael Doyle, Chris Martin, Harris County Judicial Education Conference, Houston, Texas, August 9, 2010
• “Papering your Damages”, Damages and Attorneys Fees Seminar, State Bar of Texas, February 18, 2010
• Michael P. Doyle and Darryl Silvera, Directing, Crossing and Challenging Experts, State Bar of Texas Sixth Annual Advanced Workers’ Compensation Course, Austin, Texas, August 13, 2009 – August 14, 2009
• Sequencing, Point of View, and Other Ways to Make your Case from the Start, Kansas Trial Lawyer Association Annual Crown Center Meeting, 2004
• Speaker, “Essentials of Civil Litigation”, Association of Trial Lawyers of America, National College
• “Essentials of Civil Litigation”, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 13, 2004 – October 17, 2004
• The Potential Costs When “Case Management” Crosses the Line: The Law on the Penalties and Pitfalls for Improper Handling of a Claim for Benefits by an Injured Worker, The Barnes Law Firm Workers Compensation Seminar, September 28, 2004
• The Potential Costs When Case Management Crosses the Line: The Law on the Penalties and Pitfalls for Improper Handling of a Claim for Benefits by an Injured Worker, Workers Comp Update 2003, July 24, 2003 – July 25, 2003
• The Medical Perspective, Claims Management, and Confidentiality Issues, Texas Workers Compensation Update 2002, June 4, 2002
• Current Frontiers in Maritime Fatal Injury Litigation: A Plaintiff Attorneys Perspective on Maximizing Your Clients Recovery by Your Choice of Available Legal Remedies, 9th Annual University of Texas School of Law Maritime Law Conference, September 22, 2000

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