Chad Wilson is an attorney who specializes in property insurance claim disputes. Since obtaining a license to practice law in the State of Texas in 2011, Mr. Wilson has successfully taken more than 6,000 property insurance claims to disposition through settlement or verdict. The Chad T. Wilson Law Firm has assisted policyholders in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Florida, Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, New Mexico, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
In the landmark case Hinojos v State Farm, the Texas Supreme Court agreed with Mr. Wilson in March 2021 that insurers cannot wipe their hands clean of liability when they pay an appraisal award years after receiving a claim and paying it short. Mr. Wilson and three other attorneys at his firm have been named as America’s Top 100 Trial Attorneys.
Prior to starting a law firm, Mr. Wilson managed the tendering and contracts for the offshore oil and gas development for a super major in the Federal Republic of Nigeria including materials and services valued at $4.5 Billion. Prior to that, Mr. Wilson worked in the contracts group for an offshore driller after years in operations and engineering.
Education and Early Career
Mr. Wilson was one of twelve midshipmen who successfully completed the double major program at the United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York in 1997 earning Bachelors of Science degrees in Marine Engineering and Marine Transportation / Nautical Science. Mr. Wilson joined the U.S. Navy Reserve in 1992 as part of the Strategic Merchant Marine Ready Reserve and was promoted to O-3 lieutenant during his time of service through 2005.
Aside from his professional career, Mr. Wilson competed in the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in sailing in 2000 and 2004.
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Key Personnel at Chad T. Wilson Law Firm
The Chad T. Wilson Law Firm boasts a team of dedicated professionals. Here's a brief look at some of the key members:
Donald
Donald grew up in Friendswood, Texas, in the greater Houston area. He was the first individual in his immediate family to attend a four-year university, graduating with a Bachelor’s in Science from the University of Houston Clear Lake in 2008. Afterward, Donald worked in property management on-site at Johnson Space Center in Clear Lake, processing an assortment of retired government property including items flown on various Space Shuttle missions and spare components for the International Space Station. He was accepted into the University of Houston Law Center in the fall of 2011 and graduated in 2014.
Upon being licensed in November 2014, Donald worked for a small law firm in Montrose handling product liability and employment law matters on behalf of individuals. He moved to another Houston plaintiff’s firm in early 2020, where he primarily handled first-party insurance claims on behalf of residential and commercial clients. Throughout his law career, Donald has represented the “little guy” against major corporations, hospitals, and insurance companies. Donald continues those efforts as part of the Chad T. Wilson Law Firm team, representing property owners who have been wronged by improper denial or underpayment of their insurance claims. Donald primarily handles cases in state and federal court in Texas but has made appearances in courts all over the country on a variety of matters. He is also licensed in the United States District Courts for the District of Colorado and the Eastern District of Michigan.
When away from work, Donald volunteers with a variety of Houston-based charities and organizations. In his free time, Donald enjoys wrenching on his project cars, playing soccer and sand volleyball, attending Astros games and various soccer matches, spending time with friends and family, and spoiling his black lab/Australian cattle dog mix, Jenson.
Thomas S. Wilson, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Wilson was born in Houston and grew up here prior to matriculating at The University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering in 1997. Dr. Wilson then left Texas for nearly 20 years to pursue his professional interests in medicine. He went to medical school at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD and graduated in 2001.
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He then began his clinical training in surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. During surgical residency, he took a two-year hiatus from clinical work to concentrate on research and completed the VA Outcomes Fellowship at the White River Junction VA in Vermont while simultaneously earning a MPH in 2006 from the Dartmouth Medical School’s Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences in Hanover, New Hampshire. He then completed his training in surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2008, before relocating to rural East Africa for 1 year to work as a surgeon based out of Kijabe Hospital in Kenya as part of the Thomas S. Durant Fellowship in Refugee Medicine which was awarded to him in 2008. After a year abroad, he returned to Massachusetts General Hospital where he completed a 2-year fellowship in Acute Care Surgery (critical care, trauma, and emergency surgery) in 2011.
Dr. Wilson was then recruited to New York to join the staff of the department of surgery at the New York University School of Medicine, where he spent 5 years as an assistant professor with a clinical focus on trauma at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest county hospital in the country. Finally, Dr. Wilson returned home to Houston, Texas in 2016 to join the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine as an associate professor in the Michael E.
Amanda Fulton
Amanda Fulton was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, located in Canada’s picturesque Rocky Mountains. She graduated from the University of Calgary, cum laude, where she earned a dual Bachelor of Arts degree in Law & Society, alongside a minor in Business from the Haskayne School of Business in 2008.
After relocating to Houston, Amanda subsequently obtained both her Juris Doctorate degree at South Texas College of Law and Mediation Certificate through the Frank Evans Center for Conflict Resolution. During her tenure at STCL, Amanda interned at a prominent plaintiff’s firm working on high-profile class action lawsuits. Amanda spent a summer abroad in Valetta, Malta studying cross cultural negotiation and mediation. Additionally, Amanda also participated in the Actual Innocence Clinic, Animal Law Clinic and Mediation Clinic.
Before joining the Chad T. Wilson Law Firm, Amanda owned and operated her own criminal defense firm, aggressively defending fellow citizens accused of criminal wrong-doings. While in this role, Amanda tried many high-stake cases to verdict throughout multiple counties in South Texas. During her tenure with the Chad T. Wilson Law Firm, Amanda has personally overseen and litigated a wide variety of both commercial and residential disputes regarding the wrongful denial and/or underpayment of claims in both the State and Federal Courts of Texas. Zealous advocacy of her clients’ cases throughout litigation and to verdict is something Amanda takes immense pride in.
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Not one to shy away from a courtroom, Amanda fights for fair and equitable resolutions for clients be it through mediation, settlement conferences or jury trials. Amanda is a member of the State Bar of Texas, Houston Bar Association, Fort Bend Bar Association and Galveston Bar Association. She is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Southern, Northern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States.
In her spare time, Amanda enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter and their bevy of animals.
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