Meet HAMP MOODY

Expert Mediation for Insurance Coverage Disputes

47 Years of Litigation Experience. 40+ Jury Trials. One Focus: Resolution. You don’t need to educate your mediator. You need one who already understands the case.

THE ORIGIN

THE PATH BACK TO THE TABLE.

“In 2022, I retired after 45 years of handling high-stakes insurance disputes. I believed my days in the courtroom—and at the negotiating table—were behind me.

But the calls kept coming. Lawyers on both sides of the docket complained that mediators with a deep, working understanding of insurance coverage were in short supply. This practice exists to meet that need.

“I didn’t start this practice because I had to. I started it because I was needed.”

James H. Moody III

JHM3 Mediation & Arbitration Services LLC

THE PEDIGREE

Four decades distilled into four numbers.

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Years of Experience

Insurance Coverage, Unfair Claim Settlement Practices, Coverage Driven Tort Disputes

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Jury Trials

As Lead Trial Counsel in State & Federal Courts

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Cases Mediated

With Repeat Engagement From Both Policyholder and Carrier Counsel

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Began Practicing Law

SMU J.D. • Law Review • Order of the Coif • State Bar of Texas)

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PRACTICE AREAS

SPECIALIZED EXPERTISE

Hamp focuses his mediation practice exclusively on the types of cases he knows best.

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Insurance Coverage

Complex first- and third-party coverage disputes involving domestic and foreign insurers.

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Extra-Contractual Claims

Stowers, Unfair Claim Settlement Practices, DTPA.

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Reinsurance

Rare experience in reinsurance arbitrations involving domestic and foreign carriers.

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Coverage-Driven Tort Disputes

Product liability, construction defect, professional liability, and multi-party disputes where coverage and liability issues intersect.

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Mediation & Arbitration

Strategic resolution of high-stakes disputes through confidential mediation and private arbitration.

SCHOLARSHIP

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Published and presented nationally on insurance coverage, bad faith, and reinsurance issues.

Dallas Bar Association

Creative Tools for the Last Hour of Mediation (Nov. 2025)

State Bar of Texas

Stowers – Trouble With Towers (June 2020)

University of Texas Insurance Law Institute

The Fortuity Doctrine: Known Loss & Loss in Progress (Oct. 2012)

University of Houston - Advanced Insurance and Tort Claims Seminar

Coverage Issues in Construction Defect Claims (April 2008)

Mealey’s Insurance Insolvency and Reinsurance Roundtable

Compelling Receivers to Arbitrate under the Federal Arbitration Act (April 1999)

Texas-Louisiana Oil and Gas Symposium

Environmental Coverage Under First-Party Policies (1992)

Defense Research Institute

Duty to Defend and the Right to Control the Defense (1991)

RECOGNITION

CONSISTENTLY RECOGNIZED BY THE PROFESSION

Consistently recognized by the profession’s most rigorous rating systems.

AV PREEMINENT

Martindale-Hubbell

Highest Peer Rating — Awarded for exceptional legal ability, communication skills, and high ethical standards.

Since 1978 · Continuously Maintained

Super Lawyers

Insurance Coverage (2004–2026)

22 yrs

Best Lawyers in America

Insurance Coverage (2006–2026)

20 yrs

Texas Bar Foundation

 Life Fellow

Fellow

SMU Law – Order of the Coif

J.D. 1978 · Top Academic Distinction

1978
Super Lawyers
AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell
Best Lawyers
Texas Bar Foundation
SMU Dedman School of Law
RECOGNITION

CONSISTENTLY RECOGNIZED BY THE PROFESSION

Consistently recognized by the profession’s most rigorous rating systems.

Super Lawyers
Super Lawyers

Insurance Coverage (2004–2026)

AV Preeminent Martindale-Hubbell
Martindale-Hubbell

AV Preeminent

Best Lawyers
Best Lawyers in America

Insurance Coverage (2006–2026)

Texas Bar Foundation
Texas Bar Foundation

Life Fellow

SMU Dedman School of Law
SMU Law – Order of the Coif

J.D. 1978 · Top Academic Distinction

“Experience That Moves Cases Forward.”

When the issues are complex and the stakes are real, resolution depends on more than process. It depends on judgment, experience, and the ability to understand what is actually driving the dispute.