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Doug Morgan

Partner

  • location icon Jackson, MS
    1020 Highland Colony Parkway
    Suite 310
    Ridgeland, MS 39157

Doug Morgan is a partner in the Jackson, MS office. Doug’s practice focuses on insurance coverage analysis, opinions, consulting, disputes, litigation, arbitration, and appeals.

He has extensive experience in representing domestic and foreign insurers and reinsurers in a wide range of first party and third-party insurance coverage matters, including property, all risk, builder’s risk, delay in start-up, refinery, and energy losses, commercial general liability, construction defect claims, and professional liability. Doug also has extensive experience in handling bad faith claims.

Doug strives to provide clients with a roadmap to reach final resolution of issues and claims as effectively and efficiently as possible, while paying close attention to detail and keeping the clients regularly informed throughout the process.

Published Opinions

Cooper v. Evanston Insurance Co., No. 3:22-CV-88-CWR-FKB, 2023 WL 9181353 (S.D. Miss. Feb. 23, 2023)

Keys v. Rehabilitation, Inc., 360 So.3d 270 (MS Ct. App. 2022)

McDonnel Group, L.L.C. v. Great Lakes Ins. SE, UK Branch, 923 F.3d 427 (5th Cir. 2019)

Travelers Prop. Cas. Co. of Am. v. Federated Rural Elec. Ins. Exch., No. 3:08cv83-DPJ-JCS, 2009 WL 2900027 (S.D. Miss. Sept. 3, 2009)

St. Paul Fire and Marine Ins. Co. v. Delta Kappa Chapter of Alpha Phi Fraternity, Inc., No. 5:06cv55-KS-JMR, 2006 WL 2882288 (S.D. Miss. Oct. 5, 2006)

NPR, Inc. v. Am. Int’l Ins. Co. of Puerto Rico, 242 F. Supp. 2d 121 (D.P.R. 2003)

Publications

  • “What in the Wide, Wide World of Torts is Going On? First Tobacco, Now Guns: An Examination of the Cities’ Lawsuits Against the Gun Industry,” Mississippi Law Journal, Vo. 69, No. 1 (Fall 1999)
  • “DSU Primer: Valuable Coverage When a Project Goes Wrong” A.B.A. CONSTR. LITIG. NEWSLETTER (Dec. 22, 2015)

Professional Presentations

  • “A New Focus on the War Exclusion: The Insurance Industry Confronts the Issue of ‘State-Sponsored’ Cyber Incidents,” ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee CLE Seminar, Tucson, AZ, March 2024
  • “Discovery of Underwriting Information in the U.S.,” London, May 2019
  • “Business Income Adjustments with Manufacturing Insureds,” PLRB Western Regional Adjusters Conference, Sacramento, CA, June 2016
  • “Delay in Start-Up Insurance,” London, November 2014
  • “Delay In Start-Up Insurance, A Primer Based on Lessons Learned, “ New York, December 2014

Admissions

  • State Bar Admissions
    • Mississippi
  • United States District Courts
    • United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi
    • United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
  • United States Courts of Appeals
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  • Other Admissions
    • Mississippi Tribal Court

Associations

  • ABA Insurance Coverage Litigation Committee
  • Associate Member, Loss Executives Association (LEA)
  • Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit
  • Mississippi Bar Association
  • Capital Area Bar Association
  • Member, DRI

Awards & Honors

  • Martindale-Hubbell – AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating
  • University of Mississippi Law Journal Award

Education

University of Mississippi

Juris Doctor, 2000

  • Mississippi Law Journal, Notes & Comments Editor

James Madison University

Bachelor of Arts, 1994

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