Mark Mese’s practice includes insurance coverage and insurance coverage litigation for policyholders and specialized risk groups and self-insured associations. He represents clients in a wide variety of cases involving insurance coverage, including coverage of environmental claims, real estate disputes, construction claims, banking claims, medical billing issues, as well as contractual indemnity disputes, and mass tort litigation. Mark also works with clients to develop insurance programs and negotiate and draft contracts with insurance and indemnity issues. He also provides advice to parties involved in acquisitions and mergers on ways to evaluate coverage issues and ways to structure transactions to maximize coverage.
Mark is a Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Insurance Coverage Committee, and a past editor of the International Risk Management Institute CGL Reporter. He is the general counsel for Louisiana Home Builders Association General Liability Trust. Mark frequently speaks and writes on insurance coverage and indemnity issues. Mark is a landowner with properties covered by a cell tower lease. He has negotiated cell tower leases, extensions, and buyouts for himself and his clients.
- LSU Law Center, J.D., 1984
- University of California, Davis, M.S., 1981
- LSU, B.S., 1979
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana
Courts
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit