Jones Walker LLP

For several decades, Jones Walker has represented clients on a variety of insurance coverage and litigation matters. Our insurance coverage practice has depth and experience in a wide range of contexts.

The firm's insurance coverage team has extensive experience in advising clients on and litigating the interpretation of insurance contracts and the implied rights and obligations that arise from an insurance contract. We are also experienced in writing coverage opinions, writing and responding to reservations of rights letters, and dealing with insurance laws. Our attorneys handle coverage analysis and issues for both insurers and insureds. The firm also has experience in class action and multi-district litigation cases.

Representative activities include:

• Insurance coverage advice and litigation through appeal for full range of coverage issues
• Catastrophic insurance claims and disaster coverage
• Insurance bad faith and unfair trade practices litigation
• Insurance class action defense
• Life, health, and disability insurance litigation
• Insurance and reinsurance arbitration
• Employee Retirement and Income Security Act (ERISA) litigation
• ERISA claims, preemption, and fiduciary issues
• Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) issues
• Reinsurance and stop-loss policy litigation
• Broker-dealer and securities litigation
• Insurance agent and broker errors and omissions
• Insurance agent and broker misrepresentations
• Duty to defend
• Coverage issues as between multiple layers of coverage
• Rescission of policies and misrepresentations in the application
• Subrogation

Diversity Mission Statement

Jones Walker LLP strives to encourage, foster and increase diversity across the firm. To this end, the Diversity Committee has adopted the goal of fostering a work environment that welcomes different perspectives, backgrounds and life experiences and ensures that an individual’s professional growth, experience or advancement is not limited because of gender, race, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability or other similar factor.

Purposes of the Diversity Committee

• To increase awareness of the importance of diversity within the firm and of the means by which diversity enriches the firm;
• To encourage all lawyers and staff members to develop mutual respect and appreciation for different perspectives and backgrounds; and
• To develop and implement strategies to assist the firm in recruiting, retaining and advancing staff and lawyers from diverse backgrounds.
• Jones Walker values all employees who contribute positively to the firm’s practice, the firm’s environment, and the greater community we serve.

In 2009, Jones Walker was named to MultiCultural Law Magazine’s list of "Top 100 Law Firms for Women," part of a series of listings of the top 100 law firms for diversity. The listings are compiled based on diversity statistics derived from annual surveys that the publication sends to law firms with more than 100 attorneys.