Todd is a former Partner and previously served as General Counsel for the firm. He is a seasoned litigator and practices in the insurance recovery, business, and litigation areas.
Todd’s experience is varied, and includes representing clients in contract issues, banking matters, shareholder claims, trust disputes, general business disputes, will contests, and tax controversies. Todd’s litigation experience extends to representing shareholders, LLC members, officers and directors, executors, trustees, individuals, and others in business liability and economic loss claims.
Todd represents policyholders in numerous insurance coverage and recovery related situations. He provides coverage opinions and policy reviews, and also advises clients on the proper steps to take when insurers issue reservation of rights letters or denial of coverage letters. Todd’s coverage and recovery efforts extend to litigation and matters such as multiple and excess insurance policy disputes, exhaustion of policies, policy allocation issues, additional insured coverage, contractual indemnity related matters, bad faith claims, and disputes with London underwriters. His insurance coverage experience includes business and industrial matters such as pollution issues, property damage claims, bodily injury, business interruption disputes, fiduciary claims, and employment retaliation suits. Todd is a member of the ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section and the Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee and has served as an editor of its Annual Insurance Survey. He is co-author of a chapter in the ABA’s “The Reference Handbook on the Comprehensive General Liability Policy.”
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LSU Law Center, J.D., 1981
- Member, Order of the Coif
- Manhattan University, B.S., summa cum laude, 1977
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. Tax Court
- AV Preeminent-rated, Martindale-Hubbell
- “Super Lawyers,” Louisiana Super Lawyers, 2008-2009, 2011-2016