Albert D Giraud

AV-rated attorney with almost 30 years of extensive insurance defense litigation and defense litigation experience. Formerly a partner with a six office firm covering Louisiana and Mississippi, for more than 16 years.          

Practice areas include general liability defense, personal and commercial auto/transportation defense, insurance coverage issues, construction defect defense, toxic tort defense, complex personal injury defense, products liability defense, medical malpractice defense, and worker’s compensation defense. Experience in the defense of catastrophic injury cases and other multi-party litigation. Has tried cases in state district courts and worker's compensation courts throughout Louisiana, and in all three Louisiana federal district courts. Has also argued before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Louisiana Supreme Court, four of the five Louisiana state appellate courts, California Superior Court, and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Issues personally litigated incude:

Cognitive brain damage/spinal fracture injuries with DWI allegations against the defendant;

Products liability cases involving structure fires, automobile/vehicle defects, consumer product defects, etc.;

Premises liability cases involving everything from trip-and-fall sidewalk cases to purported conditions at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and the Louisiana Superdome;

Spinal surgery cases;

Electrocution and electric shock cases;

Amputation cases;

Wrongful death cases;

Complex economic loss cases;

Insurance coverage litigation;

Automobile liability cases;

Uninsured/underinsured motorist cases, including those involving bad faith allegations/punitive damage claims;

Cable television/electric utility cases;

TERM/NORM radiation contamination litigation;

Serving as national coverage counsel for a client insurer in multiple, nationwide municipality handgun litigations; and

Being involved in the defense of one of the parties in the New Orleans public housing lead contamination class action litigation.