Valerie Norwood
Eric Buchanan and Associates, PLLC announced the addition of attorney Valerie Norwood to their team. The Disability Team at Eric Buchanan & Associates helps individuals who have been denied disability benefits provided by individual or group policies. They also help individuals who have been denied life insurance, health insurance, and similar insurance benefits.
Ms. Norwood has over eight years of litigation experience in ERISA and non-ERISA short- and long-term disability, accident, occupational, and health policies at the administrative appeal, trial, and appellate levels in both federal and state court. She has authored motions, summary judgments, and appellate briefs in multiple federal jurisdictions and has presented oral arguments before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Norwood graduated cum laude from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in television, radio, and film and worked in the entertainment industry as a producer before attending law school and earning her J.D. at South Texas College of Law in Houston in 2007.