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Jack Fontham focuses on litigation and arbitration of insurance coverage disputes and related contractual indemnity claims. A partner in our Insurance Coverage and Recovery practice, Jack exclusively represents insurance policyholders. Jack advises clients on the form and structure of their insurance programs and the insurance and indemnity provisions in their contracts, and litigates disputes arising in those areas.
Jack regularly handles first- and third-party insurance coverage claims for leading companies in the construction, energy, life sciences and consumer products sectors. Jack has a proven track record of securing insurance recoveries for asbestos-related bodily injury claims and other mass tort liabilities, as well as for large business interruption and property damage losses incurred in connection with construction projects and in a variety of other venues. Jack has helped recover more than $1 billion for policyholder clients through prelitigation settlements, trials and arbitrations.
Jack assists policyholder clients and their brokers with all phases of claims analysis, claims submission, claims adjustment and prelitigation settlement negotiations. Jack also advises clients on the form and structure of their fronting, captive and self-insurance programs, and on the allocation of insurance assets in corporate mergers and acquisitions.
Jack has handled matters under a wide variety of insurance policies, including general liability; "all risk" property; business interruption; builder's risk and delay in start-up; directors' and officers' liability; political risk; employment practices liability; automobile liability; errors and omissions liability; environmental and pollution; and fidelity and crime.
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., University of Virginia
District of Columbia
Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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
American Bar Association (sections: Litigation, Tort & Insurance Practice)
District of Columbia Bar
Louisiana State Bar Association
August 22, 2024
King & Spalding advises EGA on Majority Stake Acquisition in U.S.-based Spectro Alloys
August 6, 2024
NCR Voyix to Sell Its Digital Banking Business to Veritas
April 9, 2024
K&S advises Dude Perfect in connection with its strategic partnership with Highmount Capital
Served as trial and appellate counsel for The Coca-Cola Company in Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., et al. v. AIU Ins. Co., et al., 351 Wis.2d 643, 839 N.W.2d 882 (Wis. App. 2013), rev. denied, 846 N.W.2d 15 (Wis. 2014), successfully securing a judgment that jointly and severally liable insurers who sold their policies as part of a single block of coverage cannot insist upon prorating their liability and cannot force the policyholder to choose only one policy to pay at a time.
Represented the owners of an 898-megawatt coal-fired power plant in central Texas in connection with claims under a construction all-risk/delay-in-start-up policy issued by London- and Europe-based insurers for losses resulting from severe damage to a boiler during construction of the plant.
Represented a leading healthcare services provider in the adjustment and mediation of a large property loss and business interruption claim arising out of the shutdown and eventual closure of a pharmaceutical repackaging facility due to FDA-compliance-related issues.
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March 18, 2015
A Project Owner’s Primer On Delay In Start-Up Insurance
March 4, 2015
Energy Newsletter - March 2015
February 3, 2015
A Project Owner's Primer On Delay In Startup Insurance
August 22, 2024
King & Spalding advises EGA on Majority Stake Acquisition in U.S.-based Spectro Alloys
August 6, 2024
NCR Voyix to Sell Its Digital Banking Business to Veritas
April 9, 2024
K&S advises Dude Perfect in connection with its strategic partnership with Highmount Capital
Served as trial and appellate counsel for The Coca-Cola Company in Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., et al. v. AIU Ins. Co., et al., 351 Wis.2d 643, 839 N.W.2d 882 (Wis. App. 2013), rev. denied, 846 N.W.2d 15 (Wis. 2014), successfully securing a judgment that jointly and severally liable insurers who sold their policies as part of a single block of coverage cannot insist upon prorating their liability and cannot force the policyholder to choose only one policy to pay at a time.
Represented the owners of an 898-megawatt coal-fired power plant in central Texas in connection with claims under a construction all-risk/delay-in-start-up policy issued by London- and Europe-based insurers for losses resulting from severe damage to a boiler during construction of the plant.
Represented a leading healthcare services provider in the adjustment and mediation of a large property loss and business interruption claim arising out of the shutdown and eventual closure of a pharmaceutical repackaging facility due to FDA-compliance-related issues.
See more
March 18, 2015
A Project Owner’s Primer On Delay In Start-Up Insurance
March 4, 2015
Energy Newsletter - March 2015
February 3, 2015
A Project Owner's Primer On Delay In Startup Insurance
August 22, 2024
King & Spalding advises EGA on Majority Stake Acquisition in U.S.-based Spectro Alloys
August 6, 2024
NCR Voyix to Sell Its Digital Banking Business to Veritas
April 9, 2024
K&S advises Dude Perfect in connection with its strategic partnership with Highmount Capital
J.D., University of Virginia
B.A., University of Virginia
District of Columbia
Louisiana
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
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
American Bar Association (sections: Litigation, Tort & Insurance Practice)
District of Columbia Bar
Louisiana State Bar Association