Wells Marble & Hurst, PLLC

Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

• Telephone: 601-605-6900
• Fax: 601-605-6901
• E-Mail: kmansfield@wellsmarble.com
• Website: http://wellsmarble.com

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 131, Jackson, MS 39205-0131

Established: 1871

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About Us

In addition to insurance coverage issues and disputes, our attorneys also defend insurance companies and their agents against myriad claims. We represent major life, health, property, casualty, and other insurers in the investigation and defense of claims and lawsuits. Through the representation of insurance companies, self-insured private businesses, and governmental entities, our years of experience allow us to quickly and correctly analyze issues, risks, and exposures for litigation. Our clients rely on our abilities to anticipate and vigorously defend claims for damages, including class actions and multi-party, multi-jurisdictional matters. Our knowledge and experience facilitates the prompt and proper assessment of risks faced by our clients.

Our legal services for insurers include:

Life and health insurance defense
Drafting/review of insurance policy language
Sales practices litigation defense
Mass tort litigation defense
Product liability defense
Medical device and pharmaceutical liability defense
Professional liability defense
Property and casualty defense
Liability claims defense
Construction-related claims
Defense of all property claims
Subrogation recovery
"Bad faith" litigation defense
Defense of mass/class actions

Our attorneys routinely counsel insurance clients and represent them before government agencies and regulatory bodies, ensuring compliance with all requirements. Our services include:

Preparation of insurance contracts
Drafting of insurance policies
Securing regulatory approval of contracts, rates, and amendments
Responding to market conduct, compliance and other similar inquiries
Monitoring of activities on a national level involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Property and Casualty Insurance

We represent property and casualty insurers in just about every line of business, including defense of service contracts and home warranties, real property title disputes, automobile accidents, arson, and hurricane cases. For example, after Hurricane Katrina, we represented several different insurers involving hundreds of claims in Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In addition, we represent insurers in single claim and complex cases involving sales practices, bad faith, commercial paper, claims against guaranty associations, consumer claims, claims by agents, retrospective rating agreements, and other commercial and contract disputes related to the insurance industry.

Insurance Coverage Issues

We handle coverage issues for both businesses and their insurers in virtually any context, including property and casualty, employment practices, errors and omissions, and other business-related coverages. Successfully invoking coverages on behalf of our insured clients, we have developed a highly sophisticated practice in this increasingly complex area of the law.

We are guided by the principal goal of providing the highest level of legal representation and counseling to our insurance clients in the most efficient manner possible. Each of our cases is carefully managed and supervised to ensure that litigation costs are minimized.

Client Information

Insurance Clients

Personnel Information

Managing Member

Kenna L. Mansfield Jr.

Ridgeland, MS

• E-Mail: kmansfield@wellsmarble.com

Admitted

• Mississippi, 1982

Education:

• The University of Mississippi, J.D., 1982

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