Insurance Litigation Lawyers
5,657 verified insurance litigation attorneys across the United States. Find experienced Insurance Litigation counsel to evaluate your case, explain your options, and represent you through every stage of the legal process.
Jason Jonathan Liss is a lawyer practicing personal injury, fire and explosion, insurance litigation and 5 other areas of law. Jason received a B.A. d...
Mr. Niels Murphy is a lawyer practicing civil trial, business litigation, complex commercial litigation and 32 other areas of law.
Attorney & Counselor From the very first meeting to the resolution of your case, you can trust Rabih Hamawi to be professional, respectful, prompt, an...
Danya J Pincavage is a lawyer practicing civil litigation, commercial litigation, health and 4 other areas of law. Danya received a A.B. degree from D...
Stephen Thomas Keefe, Jr. is a lawyer practicing medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, wrongful death and 10 other areas of law. Stephen recei...
Member, Heuisler Honor Society. Moot Court Champion, 1977-1978.
Hilary W. Hunter is a lawyer practicing personal injury, premises liability, business litigation and 2 other areas of law.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clerked for the Honorable Roger L.
Ms. Eileen Lynskey Parsons is a lawyer practicing managed care litigation, health insurance litigation, insurance coverage and 8 other areas of law.
Su Barry is the principal and owner of Barry׀apc and represents consumers and injured plaintiffs as well as top San Diego businesses. She has been sel...
Robert S. Keith II is a lawyer practicing insurance defense, mold litigation, civil practice and 10 other areas of law.
Ms. Johns is a civil trial lawyer who has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict.
John F. Mahon, Jr. is a lawyer practicing health care, medical malpractice defense, personal injury defense and 3 other areas of law.
James Justin Noonan is a lawyer practicing insurance litigation, insurance, personal injury and 1 other area of law. James received a B.A. degree from...
Mr. Jason Seth Mazer is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, bad faith insurance practices, business law and 12 other areas of law.
Over his career, Tim Mickel has represented a diverse spectrum of individual and corporate clients in contract and commercial litigation, construction...
Dean Makris is a lawyer practicing commercial property insurance, fire loss, first party insurance and 10 other areas of law. Dean received a B.S. deg...
Mr. Scott Alan Levine is a lawyer practicing medical malpractice, insurance coverage, insurance litigation and 14 other areas of law.
Edward P Tugade is a lawyer practicing general practice, products liability, toxic tort and 5 other areas of law. Edward received a B.A. degree from C...
Kara Hadican Samuels is a lawyer practicing medical malpractice, litigation, personal injury and 8 other areas of law. Kara received a B.A. degree fro...
Mr. Domalewski is the managing partner of Dughi, Hewit & Domalewski, P.C.
Michael Mann Thompson is a lawyer practicing appellate practice, casualty insurance, insurance litigation and 6 other areas of law. Michael received a...
Kimberley Bufton is a lawyer practicing personal injury, insurance litigation. Kimberley received a B.A. degree from Simon Fraser University in 1993, ...
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Mr. Jeremy S Rosof is a lawyer practicing civil appeals, commercial litigation, commercial real estate and 2 other areas of law.
Michael Joseph Sepe is a lawyer practicing business and commercial litigation, corporate law, insurance coverage disputes and litigation and 11 other ...
Mr. Thomas Paul Vecchio is a lawyer practicing insurance litigation, liability defense, trial practice and 4 other areas of law.
Susan E. Ice Walker is a lawyer practicing healthcare law, healthcare transactions and business consulting, healthcare litigation and 8 other areas of...
A native of South Carolina with deep roots in Rock Hill, Christi proudly serves as the youngest founding member of the Firm. She is a magna cum laude ...
Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure II, 1990. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award in Conflict of Laws, 1991.
Michael Trevor Howard is a lawyer practicing alcoholic beverage law, dram shop liability, liquor liability and 81 other areas of law. Michael received...
Ms. Deeann Boatright Waller is a lawyer practicing insurance coverage, insurance litigation, extra contractual insurance claims and 9 other areas of l...
Mr. Edgar Meador Elliott IV is a lawyer practicing class action defense, insurance litigation, general liability defense and 9 other areas of law.
Joseph M. Feierabend is a lawyer practicing banking litigation, commercial litigation, class-action lawsuits and 8 other areas of law.
Ms. Sydney Beasley Hewlett is a lawyer practicing banking, business, construction and 15 other areas of law.
Mr. Jose Agustin Barreiro is a lawyer practicing criminal defense, dui defense, trial lawyer and 64 other areas of law.
Jennifer A. McHugh is a lawyer practicing civil rights defense, civil rights section 1983, construction insurance defense and 8 other areas of law.
Christopher Joseph Heavens is a lawyer practicing insurance litigation, tort litigation, personal injury and 108 other areas of law. Christopher recei...
Phillip Arthur Tatlow is a lawyer practicing automobile accidents and injuries, bodily injury, brain injury and 26 other areas of law. Phillip receive...
Certified Public Accountant, Illinois, 1979. Member, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law National Trial Advocacy Team, 1982.
Greg Reed is an Austin, Texas social security and disability attorney dedicated to helping clients who have been denied or lost their long term disabi...
Michael I. Kean is a lawyer practicing complex commercial litigation, real estate litigation, landlord and tenant litigation and 9 other areas of law.
Brandee Bess Bower is a lawyer practicing pharmaceutical litigation, personal injury, nursing home litigation and 21 other areas of law. Brandee recei...
Mr. Glenn Eric Siegel is a lawyer practicing civil litigation, personal injury, automobile negligence and 24 other areas of law.
Mr. Brett Steven Markson is a lawyer practicing business litigation, real estate litigation, insurance litigation and 7 other areas of law.
John William Burke is a lawyer practicing personal injury, wrongful death, insurance litigation and 36 other areas of law. John received a B.A. degree...
Jonathan Groff is an “ AV Preeminent ” ® rated attorney, with over three decades experience litigating Personal Injury claims. From early on, Mr.
Timothy C. Kelleher III is a lawyer practicing catastrophic injury, personal injury litigation, wrongful death and 8 other areas of law.
Steven B. Ferber is a lawyer practicing personal injury, medical malpractice, insurance litigation.
Boyden James Pantone is a lawyer practicing personal injury, workers compensation, aviation and aerospace and 180 other areas of law. Boyden received ...
Phi Beta Kappa.
Andrew Jonathan Rochen is a lawyer practicing alternative dispute resolution, civil litigation, civil rights litigation and 24 other areas of law. And...
Mr. Walter L.
Sanford Roy Topkin is a lawyer practicing dram shop liability, civil practice, federal civil practice and 21 other areas of law. Sanford received a B....
Paul Karsten Schrieffer is a lawyer practicing insurance litigation, insurance coverage, entertainment litigation and 3 other areas of law. Paul recei...
Robert Thomas Bryson is a lawyer practicing business litigation, business fraud, business torts and 89 other areas of law. Robert received a B.A. degr...
Adam Michael Lewis is a lawyer practicing property insurance, roof damage, civil trial and 14 other areas of law. Adam received a B.A. degree from Uni...
Gregory T Lusby is a lawyer practicing commercial litigation, construction litigation, insurance litigation and 2 other areas of law. Gregory received...
Sheldon G Alston is a lawyer practicing banking and lender liability, breach of contract, business torts and 10 other areas of law. Sheldon received a...
Kenneth Robert Pedroza is a lawyer practicing employment & labor, general practice, medical malpractice and 4 other areas of law. Kenneth received a B...
What is Insurance Litigation?
Insurance Litigation is the branch of law that governs the rights, obligations, and disputes that arise within its subject matter. In the United States, insurance litigation sits at the intersection of statutes enacted by Congress, the regulations issued by federal agencies, the laws passed by all fifty state legislatures, and the body of judge-made decisions known as the common law. Because every state writes its own version of the rules, the way insurance litigation works in one jurisdiction can look noticeably different from how it works in another, and that is one of the main reasons attorneys in this area focus their practice geographically — to stay fluent in the local statutes, court rules, and judicial preferences that shape outcomes.
At a practical level, Insurance Litigation attorneys spend their time on three categories of work. The first is advice and prevention: counselling clients on how to structure transactions, draft documents, and conduct business so that legal risk is minimised before a dispute ever begins. The second is transactional execution: producing the contracts, filings, notices, and registrations that the law actually requires to make a decision legally binding. The third is contested representation: defending or pursuing a client's interests when a dispute escalates to negotiation, regulatory enforcement, arbitration, or litigation in court.
The clients who hire Insurance Litigation lawyers range from individuals navigating a single life event to multinational corporations with complex regulatory exposure. What unifies them is the need for an experienced lawyer who knows the relevant code sections, has appeared in the relevant courts, and can translate the strategic options into language a client can act on. AttorneyQnA currently lists 5,657 verified insurance litigation attorneys across the United States, each with a public profile showing their bar admissions, years in practice, and the kinds of matters they have handled — with the deepest concentration of practitioners in Alabama.
When do you need an Insurance Litigation attorney?
Most people contact an insurance litigation lawyer for one of two reasons: something is about to happen that they want done correctly the first time, or something has gone wrong and they need it fixed before it gets worse. The earlier you involve counsel, the more options you usually have, and the lower the cost of getting to a resolution tends to be. The scenarios below are the ones we see most often on AttorneyQnA from prospective clients searching for insurance litigation representation.
Once your signature is on a contract, settlement, lease, or release, your bargaining leverage drops sharply. A short pre-signature review by an insurance litigation lawyer is the cheapest insurance you can buy.
Cease-and-desist letters, regulatory notices, and demand letters all start clocks. Missing the response window can convert a manageable problem into a default judgment or formal enforcement action.
Statutes of limitations, filing windows, and appeal periods are jurisdictional — courts cannot extend them as a favour. If you can identify a date that matters, you need a lawyer before that date arrives.
The moment opposing counsel appears, the conversation moves out of normal English and into procedural language. Continuing unrepresented usually means losing ground you cannot recover later.
Forming an entity, choosing a venue, structuring a deal, or selecting a remedy each has long-term consequences. A consultation at the planning stage is far cheaper than redoing it after the fact.
Multi-state matters bring conflict-of-laws questions that change which statutes apply and which court has authority. An attorney licensed in the right jurisdiction is not optional.
If any of the situations above describes where you are right now, the next step is a focused consultation. Use the Ask a Lawyer tool for short written questions, or browse the 5,657 insurance litigation attorneys listed above to book a paid consultation directly.
How to choose an Insurance Litigation attorney
The single biggest factor in choosing an insurance litigation lawyer is fit with your specific matter. A lawyer with twenty years of insurance litigation experience but no exposure to your particular sub-issue can easily be a worse choice than a five-year associate who has handled the same problem repeatedly. We recommend running every prospective lawyer through the same five-step checklist before signing an engagement letter.
- Bar admission in the correct jurisdiction. Confirm the lawyer is admitted in the state — and where relevant, the federal district — where your matter sits. The lawyer's profile on AttorneyQnA shows every bar admission on file, and the underlying state bar's "lawyer lookup" tool will confirm active standing in under a minute.
- Direct experience with your fact pattern. Ask plainly: "How many matters like mine have you handled in the last three years, and how did they resolve?" An honest answer reveals more than years-in-practice alone.
- A written fee agreement. Whether hourly, flat fee, contingent, or hybrid, the engagement letter should specify what is included, what triggers additional charges, and how disputes are handled. Avoid lawyers who resist writing the terms down.
- Communication cadence. Decide upfront how often you expect updates, who your day-to-day contact will be, and what response time is reasonable. The number-one complaint filed with state bar grievance committees is not malpractice — it is non-communication.
- Conflict check + reputation pulse. Make sure the lawyer has run a formal conflict check, then spend ten minutes reading independent reviews and any public disciplinary history. The state bar's website is authoritative for the second; the lawyer's AttorneyQnA profile collects the first.
Once you have a shortlist, schedule consultations with two or three. Lawyers vary widely in temperament, and the right strategic match for your case is sometimes the second or third lawyer you meet — not the first.
How much does an Insurance Litigation lawyer cost?
Legal fees in the United States are not regulated by a uniform schedule, so what you pay an insurance litigation lawyer depends on the billing model the lawyer offers, the complexity of your matter, and the local market. There are four billing structures used in this practice area; most engagements use one, but hybrid arrangements are increasingly common.
1. Hourly billing
The default model for most non-contingent matters. Rates for insurance litigation attorneys in the U.S. typically range from $150–$250/hour in smaller markets to $400–$700/hour in major metropolitan areas, with senior partners at large firms commanding $900/hour and above. Hourly billing is fairest when the scope of work is genuinely unpredictable, but it creates an incentive structure that the client has to monitor.
2. Flat fee
Increasingly used for well-defined transactions — incorporations, will drafting, single-issue filings, uncontested matters. A flat fee tells you exactly what the deliverable will cost, and the lawyer absorbs the risk of unexpected complexity. Ask whether the flat fee includes filing fees, third-party costs, and any post-filing follow-up.
3. Contingency
Where it is permitted by the rules of professional conduct — most often in plaintiff-side insurance litigation work involving monetary recovery — the lawyer is paid a percentage of the proceeds, typically 33% before suit is filed and 40% after. The client pays nothing if there is no recovery. Contingency fees align the lawyer's economics with yours, but the percentage compounds across time, so very strong cases sometimes do better on hourly billing.
4. Retainer / subscription
A monthly fee that buys a defined block of access or hours. This is common for businesses with ongoing insurance litigation needs — contract review, employee questions, regulatory check-ins. A subscription smooths out spending and gives the lawyer a reason to know your operation in depth.
Whichever model you choose, ask for an itemised written estimate before the engagement begins, and ask explicitly what is not covered. Surprise expenses are the most common source of attorney-client friction.
Frequently asked questions about insurance litigation
How quickly can an insurance litigation lawyer review my matter?
Most lawyers can schedule an initial consultation within 1–3 business days. Urgent matters — pending deadlines, time-sensitive notices, court-ordered hearings — should be flagged in your first message; many lawyers reserve emergency consultation slots for that reason. If you need a written answer faster, the Ask a Lawyer tool typically returns answers in under 24 hours.
Do I need a insurance litigation lawyer in my exact city, or anywhere in my state?
Bar admission is the controlling rule: any attorney licensed in your state can represent you in that state's courts and agencies, regardless of which city they're based in. Practical proximity still matters for in-person meetings, local court familiarity, and access to the local bench and bar. For state-level filings and remote-friendly matters, an attorney elsewhere in the same state often works fine.
Will an initial consultation cost me anything?
Many insurance litigation attorneys offer a free 15- to 30-minute initial consultation; others charge a flat consultation fee that may be credited against the engagement if you hire them. The lawyer's profile lists the consultation policy. Free does not always mean better — a fee-based consultation is sometimes the sign of a lawyer who treats their time, and yours, seriously.
What documents should I bring to the first meeting?
Bring every contract, notice, letter, filing, or written communication connected to the matter; a written timeline of events with dates; the names and contact details of every other party involved; and any deadlines or hearing dates you are already aware of. Even an incomplete file is more useful than a verbal summary alone.
Can I change lawyers if I am not happy with mine?
Yes. Clients can discharge their lawyer at any time, for any reason, by written notice. Your case file belongs to you and must be transferred to your new counsel. Any unpaid fees through the date of discharge remain owed; any unearned advance must be refunded. If you are mid-litigation, the court typically must approve the substitution, but approval is routine.
How long does an typical insurance litigation matter take?
It depends almost entirely on whether the matter is transactional or contested. A transactional matter — a contract, a filing, a single-step transaction — can resolve in days to weeks. A contested matter — anything involving disputed facts, court intervention, or regulatory action — typically takes months at minimum, and complex cases can run multiple years. Your lawyer should give you a realistic outside estimate at intake.
Are insurance litigation lawyer fees tax-deductible?
It depends on the nature of the matter and current tax law. Fees connected to producing or collecting taxable income, managing investment property, or operating a business are often deductible; fees for personal matters generally are not. Because rules change, confirm deductibility with a tax professional for the year in which the fees are paid.
What is the difference between insurance litigation and the related practice areas?
Insurance Litigation overlaps with several adjacent areas — see the related-practice-area grid below for direct links. Choosing the right lawyer often means picking the one whose primary focus matches the heart of your problem, even if multiple labels could technically apply. When you are unsure, list your situation in your own words to two lawyers from neighbouring areas and ask which one of them is the better fit; honest lawyers will tell you.
Find insurance litigation attorneys by state
Each state link below opens the insurance litigation roster for that jurisdiction, with the local statute of limitations, court-system overview, and verified attorneys.
Insurance Litigation Law Firms
Main Law Firm
Winter Park
Walton Law Firm
San Marcos
Bruner Law Firm
Fort Walton Beach
J&Y Law Firm
Los Angeles
West Law Firm
Charleston
John T. Floyd Law Firm
Houston
Insurance Litigation by State
All states →Find insurance litigation attorneys in every US state. Each state link opens a hub with verified attorneys, the state filing deadline, and a free attorney match.