Mark Plevin

Practice Areas

Mark D. Plevin is a Crowell & Moring partner who litigates and tries cases in the bankruptcy and insurance coverage areas. He has served as lead counsel, on behalf of both U.S. and international insurers, in some of the nation's most important asbestos bankruptcy and other mass tort bankruptcy cases. Mark also litigates major insurance coverage cases and handles trials and appeals in both bankruptcy and insurance matters. In the asbestos bankruptcy area, Mark served as lead trial counsel for several insurers in the Plant Insulation, Thorpe Insulation, Federal-Mogul, and W.R. Grace confirmation hearings. Mark also represents insurers in bankruptcy cases involving mass torts such as opioids, talc, sexual abuse by priests and others, defective products; and liability for wildfires. Outside the mass tort area, Mark represents both debtors and creditors in non-mass tort bankruptcy cases. He was one of the debtors' lawyers in Baldwin-United, then the nation's largest-ever Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. Mark's creditor representations have included manufacturers, banks, airlines, shopping center owners, and health care providers. In the insurance coverage area, Mark has long experience as lead counsel representing insurers in cases involving environmental, asbestos, and products liability underlying claims and alleged insurer bad faith.