Find Lawyers in America for Litigation - Insurance

Allison Abbott has been with Elverson Vasey since 1999 and has been a partner in the firm since 2006. Her areas of practice include civil defense, insurance litigation and defense, insurance subrogation, and family law. She is a member of the Iowa State Bar Association, Polk County Bar Association, Dallas County Bar Association, Iowa Defense Counsel Association and the Iowa Academy of Trial Lawyers. She is currently serving a term on the Dallas County Magistrate Nomination Commission. She ser...

KC Ahrens is an experienced business litigator and accomplished insurance law trial attorney. KC brings to Hellmuth & Johnson nearly 30 years of extensive trial experience in complex litigation, business disputes and insurance law. As a trusted professional advisor and trial advocate, KC possesses a rare combination of business judgment, strategic leadership and crisis management skills. As a persuasive and successful trial lawyer, KC captures the respect of clients and opposing counsel a...

With experience defending over 250 class action cases in state and federal courts throughout the United States, Marcy Levine Aldrich is chair of Akerman’s Class Action Defense Litigation Practice. Noted by Chambers USA for her “strong reputation,” Marcy litigates complex disputes, including class action litigation and complex insurance litigation with a focus on serving national and regional insurers in connection with auto insurance, property casualty and other insurance is...

A courtroom veteran, Peri has taken more than 65 civil and criminal cases to trial. She practices primarily in insurance, with experience in first-party claims, insurance bad faith and extra-contractual litigation. She often provides insurers with complex claims-handling advice, first- and third-party coverage opinions and guidance concerning Texas insurance statutes. Peri has also litigated in a variety of areas of civil litigation. That breadth of experience has benefited clients ranging fr...

Russell Q. Allison is a founding shareholder of Carr Allison and serves as the firm’s president. Resident in the Birmingham (AL) office, Russ advises and represents clients in a broad range of businesses with an emphasis on clients in the insurance industry. Russ is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Alabama and before the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Russ sits on the board of the EC Defense Network, which he co-founded in 2016, and is se...

Victoria is a shareholder at Adler Pollock & Sheehan. She is Co-Chair of the firm’s Government Relations Practice Group. A distinguished and highly awarded attorney with noted successes in high-stakes, precedent-setting cases, Victoria gives her litigation, health care, governmental relations and white-collar criminal-defense clients responsive, civil and innovative counsel. Always remaining accessible, providing prompt attention to pressing problems and avoiding cookie-cutter solut...

Jesse’s practice focuses on civil defense work with a concentration in premises liability and truck/automobile litigation. Licensed in both Alabama and Tennessee, Jesse routinely defends corporations, individuals, and insurance companies. Jesse is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Alabama, as well as all Courts in the State of Alabama and Tennessee, including the Alabama Supreme Court and Tennessee Supreme C...

David M. Atkinson has been a trial lawyer since 1991, focusing on civil litigation defense, including tort claims, construction litigation, insurance coverage, business disputes and intellectual property. He has served as lead trial counsel in federal and state courts throughout Georgia and the Southeast, as well as appellate counsel before the Supreme Court of Georgia, Court of Appeals of Georgia and United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. A regular speaker on insurance and ...

Brett represents insurers, lenders, transporters, manufacturers, and other business entities in all aspects of litigation in the federal and state courts, and before various arbitration venues. He has tried to verdict, before juries and courts, class actions, insurance, product liability, lender liability cases, commercial, trucking, real estate, and other business disputes. He has defended insurers in all aspects of commercial, life, health and disability coverage. He has tried or negotiated...

Michael A. Balascio is an experienced litigator representing clients in securities litigation and arbitration, high-stakes insurance coverage and bad faith cases, and complex commercial litigation. He has first-chair trial experience and has successfully litigated matters in federal and state appellate courts. In his securities practice, Michael counsels investment management companies and brokers in litigated matters and FINRA proceedings in a variety of significant disputes involving securi...

Board Certified in Civil Appellate Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Jessica Barger has experience in both trial and appellate matters. In private practice, she has assisted in or handled all phases of litigation for a wide variety of clients involved in insurance defense and coverage, products liability, premises liability, personal injury, and commercial lawsuits in state and federal court. While at the Fourteenth Court of Appeals, she researched legal and factual issues, made...

Rita Bolt Barker is a veteran litigator and counselor with experience in environmental, commercial litigation, and insurance coverage matters. Environmental Rita has broad experience helping clients navigate the wide range of laws that protect our natural resources. She is a trusted, reliable partner for business and individuals who need a steady guide through the ins and outs of environmental compliance and litigation. Rita delivers results for clients who need assistance in investigating an...

Judy Y. Barrasso is a founding member of the law firm of Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C., a New Orleans litigation firm ranked among the top litigation firms in Louisiana. Her practice focuses on commercial litigation, and includes complex commercial litigation matters and class actions involving insurance coverage and bad faith, director and officer liability, securities fraud, and commercial contracts.

Robert Baugh is a shareholder in Dentons Sirote’s Birmingham, Alabama office, where he serves as co-chair of the Dentons Sirote Litigation practice group. Robert has been engaged in the practice of law continuously since 1982. Robert represents clients in insurance, business, and product liability cases in both state and federal courts throughout the Southeast. He has obtained favorable results for Fortune 500 companies as well as privately held companies. In addition to his litigation ...

Mr. Baum is a Founding Member and President of Baum O’Connor Cullen Chmiel. For more than 40 years, Mr. Baum has focused his practice on the representation of physicians, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers, particularly in the defense of medical malpractice lawsuits, and in related contract and employment litigation. Mr. Baum has extensive trial experience, having tried over 100 cases in his career. Mr. Baum also represents healthcare professionals in administrative matters i...

Jay Beattie is a product liability and insurance litigation lawyer who also specializes in employment-related litigation and civil appeals. He has over 25 years of experience representing clients in federal and state trial courts and administrative forums. Jay has also handled numerous appeals in the Oregon, Washington and federal courts of appeals. Jay’s clients include the Port of Portland, Chartis Private Client Group, Red Shield Insurance, Farmer’s Insurance, Trek Bicycle Corp...

Brent excels at taking complicated problems and making them accessible for his clients, jurors and judges. His M.B.A. training allows him to assist clients in making decisions that are truly in their best financial interests. Brent concentrates on insurance policy and bad faith disputes. His practice is unusual in that he represents both insurance policy holders and insurance companies, depending on the case, providing unique insights into both perspectives. This experience allows him to get ...

Paul Berg splits his time between managing the firm and his litigation practice. Paul’s practice focuses on complex business and commercial litigation, along with personal injury and wrongful death actions. Paul co-authored the 2009 supplement to the “Case Investigation” chapter of the Oregon Civil Litigation Manual .

Jill B. Berkeley chairs the firm’s Insurance Policyholder practice group. Chambers USA reports that clients describe her as “a breath of fresh air in litigation,” and “an outstanding lawyer with encyclopedic knowledge of case law.” She is recognized by her peers as having “great stature nationally” and being “a pillar of the policyholder community.” Jill represents policyholders and claimants in insurance coverage disputes involving toxic ...

Kevin is a Member of Spicer Rudstrom’s Board of Directors and the Managing Member of the firm’s Memphis Office. His practice areas include tort liability defense, including catastrophic personal cases, trucking, and transportation cases, construction defect litigation, along with complex litigation. He is the Chair of the firm’s Construction, Construction Defect. He has received an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

With over 44 years of experience, Robert V. Berthold, Jr. is a dedicated and compassionate trial lawyer. His focus is mainly in medical malpractice cases, including cases concerning birth injury and brain injury. He also handles coal mining accidents, product liability issues, complex auto/trucking accidents, industrial accidents, and insurance bad faith. In 2002, Attorney Berthold served as co-counsel in a fifty million dollar jury verdict, a case that garnered one of the top 100 verdicts in...

With an extensive trial résumé, Brian centers his practice on the defense of transportation liability claims involving large commercial trucks and buses, medical negligence cases, insurance coverage litigation, insurance bad faith and extra-contractual litigation, and insurance regulatory matters including representation of the North Carolina Rate Bureau and the North Carolina Reinsurance Facility. Brian has litigated cases to verdict in many state and federal courts in North Ca...

David Bienvenu has extensive litigation experience in state and federal courts throughout Louisiana, representing clients in general casualty, insurance and commercial litigation. He enjoys an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale Hubbell, a testament to the fact that his peers rank him at the highest level of professional excellence. He has also been named a Louisiana Super Lawyer in Civil Litigation Defense and is recognized in Best Lawyers in Commercial, Casualty, and Insurance Litigation. ...

After graduating from the Ole Miss Law School in May 1976, Bob spent one year (1976-1977) as a law clerk to the Chief Judge for the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Upon completion of his clerkship, he immediately entered the practice of law focusing his practice in Litigation. For 42 years he has been actively engaged in a general trial practice in all Mississippi courts, state and federal. He is a former President of the Mississippi Defense Lawyers and an active member of the F...

M.Stephen Bingham , a Director at CGWG, has a varied practice that includes the areas of commercial litigation, business law, airport law, products liability defense, professional liability defense, insurance defense, transportation law and construction law. Steve, who is a Certified Public Accountant in addition to an attorney, has an emphasis in business contract work. He focuses a great deal of his time in defending municipal and government entities. He represents and defends municipal and...

Jeff joined this firm in 1993 and became a partner in 1994. He is a lifelong resident of the Olean area and an Olean High School Graduate. Mr. Black obtained his Bachelor of Science Degree from St. Bonaventure University in 1990 and graduated cum laude from The Dickinson School of Law (Penn State) in 1993. While in law school he was a member of the Dickinson Law Review and his case note was published. He was also a member of the Woolsack Honor Society. Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Bla...

Edward L. Bleynat, Jr. began his legal career by clerking for James G. Exum, Jr., then the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Cutting hsi trial teeth at a major Greensboro business litigation firm. In 1995, Ed relocated to Asheville, to continue his law practice and to raise his family in Western North Carolina where he grew up. Ed and Joe Ferikes merged their practices into Ferikes & Bleynat, PLLC in 2001. Ed is actively involved in a variety of church, civic, and comm...

Paul Bolus has been representing insurance company clients for more than 20 years, litigating and managing more than 200 cases in federal and state venues across the country. Paul has taken on multi-million dollar cases, including class action lawsuits, regularly representing insurance companies in litigation dealing with: health insurance including major medical, indemnity, specified disease, cancer, heart, stroke and disability, life insurance, long term care insurance, securities, annuitie...

Mr. Booth received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Georgia. He continues to support his alma mater by serving as an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law where he teaches a course on medical malpractice. Prior to law school, Mr. Booth was the head of an American delegation of agricultural specialists who studied in the Soviet Union. He maintains an interest in Eastern Europe and was invited to return in 2010 to Tbilisi, Georgia to participa...

Claude Bosworth is an AV-rated attorney whose practice emphasizes casualty, construction, environmental, insurance and toxic tort litigation. He has represented local, national and multi-national companies in small and large cases alike, having successfully defended hundreds of cases, including multi-million-dollar casualty and property damage cases. Claude has a wide variety of trial, arbitration, and mediation experience and has successfully argued in front of the United States Fifth Circui...

My practice is a mix of business litigation and insurance cases. I regularly represent clients in state and federal courts throughout NC in business disputes. Typical claims are: breach of contract, tortious interference with contract, unfair competition, fraud, defamation, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair and deceptive trade practices, and other statutory violations. I have represented both policyholders and insurers in insurance coverage disputes. I also represent dentists in ma...

Ryan G. Brake is a shareholder in the firm’s Florence, Alabama office. He practices in the areas of general liability, premises liability and workers’ compensation and has defended numerous premises liability, auto accident and workers’ compensation cases in courts across Alabama. Ryan received his BS in Business Management, graduating magna cum laude, from the University of North Alabama where he served as president of the Student Government Association. He earned his JD fr...

Clint Brasher has a record of success stretching back more than 20 years. In his early career, Mr. Brasher’s work was focused on injury trials, shareholder disputes, wrongful termination, and claims brought under the False Claims Act. In 2004, he was granted Board Certification by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Personal Injury Trial Law. To be Board Certified, an attorney must have practiced for at least five years, tried the minimum number of cases, be recommended by judges...