Claude L. Stuart III

Practice Areas

Insurance Coverage with an emphasis on Offshore and Onshore Energy Package Policies including Property, Casualty, Business Interruption and Related Subrogation; Major Excess Liability Exposures and Monitoring; and inter-related Admiralty issues

Career

As long recognized by Chambers USA, Claude Stuart is a leading American insurance coverage lawyer handling major offshore and onshore energy and maritime insurance coverage litigation and arbitration including subrogation, corollary counseling and drafting of wordings for the London and participating domestic Insurance Markets. He is a shareholder in Hall Maines Lugrin.

He is a recipient of the Garland R. Walker Inn of Court, Attorney Professionalism Award for “upholding the highest standards of professionalism, ethics, and civility in the practice of law.”

Professional Memberships

Ex officio member of and American legal advisor to Joint Rig Committee at Lloyd’s of London; Fellow, American College of Coverage Counsel; Life Member, American Law Institute; Proctor and Life Member Maritime Law Association.

Publications

Chapter 23 (Presentation of the Case in Chief) for Law and Practice of Insurance Coverage Litigation (West Group). A multi-volume publication by “nationally recognized experts” and Downhole, Offshore and Blowouts: A Primer on Oil & Gas Coverage: The Offshore Energy Package Policy (2013) (recognized as a leading source).