Houston, Texas
- Dallas (Principal Office)
- (214) 780-1400
Hilary C. Borow
Hilary C. Borow
Partner
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717 Texas Ave.
27th Floor
Houston, Texas 77002
Commercial Litigation
Insurance Coverage and Litigation
Personal Injury Defense
- Texas, 1993
- U.S. District Courts, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Fifth Circuits
University of Texas School of Law
J.D., 1993
Associate Editor, The Review of Litigation
Intern, Texas Supreme Court, Justice Eugene Cook
University of Arizona
M.A., Anthropology, 1983
Graduate Scholarship for Academic Excellence
University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Anthropology, 1981
cum laude
Professional & Community Involvement
- State Bar of Texas, Insurance Law and Litigation Sections
- Houston Bar Association, Litigation Section
- American Bar Association, Litigation Section
- American Inns of Court
- Texas Bar Foundation (Fellow)
- Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America
Awards & Recognition
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Litigators in America, 2025
- The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White Inc., 2016-2019, 2023, 2024
- Houston’s Top Lawyers, H Texas, 2014-2018
- Rated AV Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell
- Fellow in the Litigation Counsel of America
About Hilary C. Borow
Hilary C. Borow represents clients in wide-ranging insurance coverage disputes, commercial litigation, and personal injury litigation. She focuses her practice on representing and advising insurance companies in complex coverage and extra-contractual first-party and third-party matters. Hilary has achieved numerous verdicts and dismissals in favor of her clients.
Her experience involves all types of insurance, such as first-party commercial property, builder’s risk, homeowners, and a broad range of liability insurance, including general liability, excess and umbrella liability, pollution liability, directors and officers, professional liability, fiduciary liability, cyber and technology liability, auto liability, and UM/UIM.
Hilary concentrates her practice in the areas of insurance coverage, bad faith, and personal injury litigation. Her other experience includes litigating complex contract disputes, construction defect coverage litigation, oilfield coverage litigation, and maritime matters.
Representative Experience
- Defends insurers in complex, high dollar disputes involving property damage, business interruption, and bad faith, arising from catastrophic weather events, wind,
flood, hail, freeze, fire, and collapse - Defends insurers in complex, multi-million dollar disputes involving third-party liability insurance, including general liability, pollution liability, and construction defect liability, directors and officers, professional liability, fiduciary liability, technology liability
- Numerous trials defending insurers in first party and third party coverage disputes
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Successfully defends clients in personal injury trucking accidents, including successful defense at trial where Plaintiffs claim millions of dollars
- Has obtained numerous summary judgments in favor of clients in first party and third-party coverage disputes and third party commercial and personal injury litigation
- Experienced in counseling clients on insurance matters
- Appellate work on behalf of insurers
