INSURANCE LITIGATION

Watkins Ludlam Winter & Stennis, P.A. maintains a substantial insurance-based litigation practice, representing numerous insurers and their insureds pursuant to a variety of coverage types and in numerous substantive areas. Additionally, the Firm regularly represents numerous insurance carriers in direct action matters as well as in the determination of coverage questions and the resolution or litigation of coverage issues.

The Firm enjoys a regional litigation practice, regularly representing numerous general liability insurance carriers as well as many insurers providing particularized or specialized coverages under programs or policies tailored to meet specific industry risks. The Firm regularly handles all aspects of casualty litigation, maintaining a significant general liability trial practice in all state and federal courts within the State of Mississippi. The Firm's litigation attorneys regularly handle matters for its insurance clients in diverse practice areas ranging from products liability, workers compensation, negligence, premises liability and general personal injury claims to complex commercial litigation and mass tort or class action claims.

With a broad base and range of experience among its litigation attorneys, the Firm endeavors to utilize its depth of courtroom and substantive experience to provide its insurance clients a cost-effective, result-oriented representation. In so doing, the Firm undertakes, both statewide and regionally, insurance-based representation of manufacturers, financial institutions, retailers, public entities and officials, medical professionals, health care facilities, common carriers, utilities, and individuals, as well as various entities engaged in interstate and intrastate transportation, commerce, gaming, agribusiness, construction and specialized industries. With a substantial litigation department and utilizing its offices in Gulfport, Jackson, Olive Branch and New Orleans the Firm strives to provide its insurance clients, and their insureds, with the capabilities to handle even the most complex forms of litigation while maintaining the benefit of a localized presence.

Attorneys

F. Hall Bailey
George F. (Pete) Bloss, III
Neville H. Boschert
H. Mitchell Cowan
Kevin A. Croft
S. Trent Favre
Laura Limerick Gibbes
David C. Goff
Terris C. Harris
Laura L. Hill
Scott Burnham Hollis
Robert T. Jolly
Mary Margaret Kuhlmann
Henry F. Laird, Jr.
E. Patrick Lancaster
Janet D. McMurtray
Dennis W. Miller
Keith R. Raulston
Joseph Henry Ros
Christopher R. Shaw
Vikki J. Taylor

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