Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense
- Telephone: 504-522-1400
- Fax: 877-585-1401
- Toll Free: 800-EVANSCO
- E-Mail: revans@evanslawfirm.com
- Website: www.evanslawfirm.com
Established: 1983
Practice Areas
- Admiralty and Maritime Law
- Aviation
- Comprehensive General Liability
- Construction Law
- Directors and Officers Liability
- Employment Practices Liability
- Energy
- Environmental Law
- Excess and Umbrella
- Insurance Coverage
- Insurance Defense
- Motor Carriers
- Oil and Gas
- Product Liability
- Professional Liability
- Property and Casualty
- Railroad Law
- Toxic Torts
About Us
Evans & Co. counselors and litigators is a regional law firm serving the insurance industry for 30 years. We provide scalable litigation services in defense and coverage matters, including matters with multi-state and with international law aspects. We provide strategy, case coordination with other counsel, quality control review of the work of other counsel, as well as more common services in defense of liability claims and interpretation of coverages. We prosecute and defend declaratory judgment actions, and contested property damage claims.
Evans & Co. has represented many domestic and international insurers, and with insureds with substantial self-insured retentions and claims management programs. We work often with home-office claims units in respect of bad faith, coverage, environmental, and other classes of claims which benefit from special attention and expertise. We also work with regional and local claims staff.
Evans & Co. is experienced in providing timely reporting which will conform to all litigation guidelines and audit standards.
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Client Information
Insurance Clients
- ACE Westchester Specialty Group
- Allianz Insurance Company
- American Family Insurance Company
- American Interstate Insurance Company
- American National Property and Casualty Company
- Anchor General Insurance Company
- Assicurazioni Generali S.p.A.
- Atlas Insurance Company
- Bituminous Casualty Corporation
- Canal Indemnity Company
- The Cincinnati Insurance Companies
- CNA Insurance Company
- Colony Insurance Group
- Construction Insurance Company
- Continental Western Group
- COUNTRY Financial
- EMC Insurance Company
- Erie Insurance Group
- Farm Family Insurance Companies
- General Security Insurance Company
- GuideOne Insurance
- Kiln Group
- Markel Insurance Company
- Meadowbrook Insurance Group
- Mountain States Insurance Group
- National Grange Mutual Insurance Company
- Ocean Marine Indemnity Insurance Company
- Phoenix Indemnity Insurance Company
- Professional Insurance Underwriters, Inc.
- Shelter Insurance Companies
- St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company
- Transportation Casualty Insurance Company
- Transportation Claims, Inc.
- Underwriters at Lloyd's, London
- Underwriters Indemnity Company
- Underwriters Service Company, Inc.
- United Educators Insurance Company
- United Fire & Casualty Company
- United National Insurance Company
- Universal Underwriters Insurance Company
- Vela Insurance Services
- XL Insurance
- Zurich North America
Non-Insurance Clients
- High Country Transportation, Inc.
- Jones Motor Group
- SAIA Motor Freight Line, Inc.
- United States Postal Service
Personnel Information
Attorneys
Robert C. Evans
New Orleans, LA
Admitted
- Louisiana, 1980
- Maryland
- Colorado, 1999
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana, 1980
- U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, 1991
Memberships:
- Louisiana State, Maryland State and New Orleans Bar Associations
- The Colorado Bar Association
- New Orleans Association of Defense Counsel
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
- Lawyer-Pilots Bar Association
- The Maritime Law Association of the United States
- Defense Research Institute
Education:
- Columbia University, B.A., 1975
- University of Maryland, J.D. (with honors), 1980
Born: 1954
Karen M. Worthington
New Orleans, LA
Admitted
- Louisiana, 1984
- U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
Memberships:
- Louisiana State Bar Association
Education:
- Louisiana State University, B.A. (cum laude), 1981
- Louisiana State University, J.D. (with honors), 1984
Born: 1959
Mark Fierro
New Orleans, LA
Admitted
- Texas, 1986
- Louisiana, 1987
Memberships:
- State Bar of Texas
Education:
- The University of Texas at El Paso, B.B.A., 1983
- The University of Texas at El Paso, J.D., 1985
Born: 1962
Marian Harrison
New Orleans, LA
Admitted
- Louisiana, 1997
- U.S. Supreme Court
Memberships:
- Louisiana State Bar Association
Education:
- Louisiana State University, B.A., 1994
- Louisiana State University, J.D., 1997
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