Texas Personal Automobile Insurance Policy

Janet K. Colaneri, senior partner of The Colaneri Firm, P.C., has practiced civil litigation exclusively since her graduation from the University of Arkansas Law School in 1984. Ms. Colaneri is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law and Civil Trial Law. She is also a member of the Texas Bar Foundation, College of the State Bar of Texas, Texas Association of Defense Counsel, and the Defense Research Initiative. An AV rated attorney, she is licensed to practice in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

In 2016, Ms. Colaneri earned her LL.M. (Masters of Laws) in Trial Advocacy from Temple University Beasley School of Law in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She continues to maintain a very active trial practice, appearing in courtrooms nationwide.

Ms. Colaneri’s emphasis is in automobile, homeowners’ and commercial policies, fraud, casualty losses, and first party claims. As an attorney who is knowledgeable about changes and developments in insurance law, she has litigated many of the provisions of the standard automobile and homeowners’ policies. She is admitted to practice before the Fifth Circuit and all Federal Districts in Texas. She has been named a “Texas Super Lawyer” continuously since 2003 by Texas Monthly and has been named “Top Injury Defense Attorney in Tarrant County, Texas.”

Mr. Weatherford is a partner of Kassabian, Doyle & Weatherford, P.C. He earned his undergraduate degree in Political Science from Southwest Texas State University. During his undergraduate studies, he was the presenting team member for his International Law class moot court and served in various positions with the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps (AFROTC), including Cadet Director of Personal and Color Guard Commander. Upon graduation, Mr. Weatherford was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force and served on Titan II ICBM crews and as a missile crew instructor, leaving the Air Force with the rank of Captain. Mr. Weatherford then attended graduate school and law school at the University of Texas, earning a Master’s degree in Government in 1988 and his J.D. in 1991. Mr. Weatherford served as briefing attorney to Justice Ed Kinkeade for the Fifth District Court of Appeals (Dallas) during the 1992-1993 term. Since joining his firm as an associate in 1997, Mr. Weatherford has practiced in the areas of third- and first-party insurance defense and coverage.