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Mandeville Medical Malpractice Lawyer
Overview
Chip applies his more than three decades of civil trial litigation experience to the most complex and difficult cases of medical malpractice and products liability nowadays. Based in the metro New Orleans area, Chip is licensed in Louisiana and Texas, he has a multi-state practice and has been admitted pro hac vice in many other states including Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Chip brings together meticulous preparation with passionate courtroom advocacy on behalf of both his individual and corporate clients.
Chip’s preeminent professional achievements have been recognized by his peers and various legal and professional organizations including Super Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the International Association of Defense Counsel. He is a Life Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has received Martindale’s highest (AV) rating for lawyers for more than 30 years. In January 2015, he was lead counsel in a medical malpractice wrongful death case in New Orleans that resulted in a multi-million dollar jury award; the highest damage award to a single medical malpractice victim in Louisiana history. Chip handles medical malpractice cases all over Louisiana, southern Mississippi and the panhandle of Florida.
Attorney Chip Wagar, featured as Top Attorney in Fall 2009 Jefferson Life
Attorney Chip Wagar featured in Sophisticated Woman
Chip is also an award-winning author. You can visit his website at http://anamericaninvienna.com/.
About Chip Wagar
Practice Areas
- Medical Malpractice
- Commercial Litigation
- Admiralty / Maritime
- Products Liability
Litigation
- 100%
Current Employment Position(s)
- Founding Partner
Representative Clients
- Atwood Oceanics, Inc.
- Berkley Risk Administrators
- Devon Energy Corporation
- HDI-Gerling America Insurance Group
- Shop Vac Corporation
- Texas General Agency
- The ABB Group
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Louisiana, 1979
- Texas, 1981
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Louisiana, 1979
- U.S. District Court Western District of Louisiana, 1979
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Louisiana, 1979
- U.S. Court of Appeals 5th Circuit, 1979
- U.S. Supreme Court, 1981
- U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, pro hac vice
- Pennsylvania
- Georgia
- U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina, pro hac vice
- Alabama
- Arkansas
- Mississippi
- U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1980
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas, 2010
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Texas, 2010
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Texas, 2015
Other Affiliations
- International Association of Defense Counsel, 1986 - Present (Member)
- National Institute for Trial Advocacy, 1993 - Present (Faculty)
- Louisiana Organization for Judicial Excellence, 2007 - Present (President)
- Trucking Industry Defense Association (TIDA)
- Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel
- Defense Research Institute
- Louisiana State Bar Association (Member)
- American Board of Trial Advocates (Member)
- Texas Bar Association (Member)
Education
- Tulane Law School, New Orleans, Louisiana
Juris Doctor
Honors: cum laude - George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, 1976
B.A.
Major: International Affairs
Past Positions
- Hailey, McNamara, Partner, 1981 - 1995
- Exxon Corporation, Attorney, 1979 - 1981
- Wagar Richard Kutcher Tygier & Luminais, LLP, Partner, 1982 - 1996
- Wagar Richard Kutcher Tygier & Luminais, LLP, Founding Partner, 1996 - 2018
- Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale, Partner, 1982 - 1986
- Exxon Corporation, Exxon USA, Attorney, Litigation, and E&P, 1979 - 1982
Pro Bono Activities
- New Orleans Public Defenders, 2005 - 2007
Classes and Seminars
- NITA Gulf Coast Deposition Program, NITA, 1998 - Present
- NITA Trial Academy, 1993 - Present
- Trial Advocacy, National Institute of Trial Advocacy
- Adjunct Professor, Medical Malpractice Law, Loyola University’s College of Law
Ancillary Businesses
- Provider: Texas Dept. of Insurance; Continuing Education
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Chip Wagar
Included on the 2025 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
Past Lists
- 2024 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2023 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2022 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Louisiana Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Marquis "Who's Who in American Law"
- New Orleans City Business Magazine, "New Orleans 50 Leaders in Law", 2006
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Rating
- Louisiana SuperLawyers, 2011-2018
- Avvo, Martindale-Hubbell “AV” Attorney, 1986
- Life Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Member, International Association of Defense Counsel
Office Information
Address
1401 W Causeway Approach Mandeville, LA 70471
Phone
Websites
Publication
Articles
- Author, An American in Vienna, iUniverse, 2011
- Author, The Carpathian Assignment; Createspace, 2014
- Author, Double Emperor, The Life and Times of Francis of Austria
Representative Cases
- Bell v. Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. of Louisiana, 2010 WL 2089236 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2010)
- Tokio Marine v. ABB, Inc., 2010 WL 1881890 (M.D. La. 2010)
- Boudreaux v. Deutz Corp., 2010 WL 1838650 (E.D. La. 2010)
- Kaplon v. Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. Of Louisiana, 2010 WL 1727857 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2010)
- Bohannon v. Johnson Food Equipment, Inc., 2010 WL 716427 (E.D. Ark. 2010)
- Bohannon v. Johnson Food Equipment, Inc., 2010 WL 716430 (E.D. Ark. 2010)
- Bell v. Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. of Louisiana, 31 So.3d 446 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2010)
- Colonial Claims Corp. v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd's, 2009 WL 1409976 (E.D. La. 2009)
- Thibodeaux v. Williamson, 9 So.3d 1075 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2009)
- Bell v. Rimkus Consulting Group, Inc. of Louisiana, 8 So.3d 64 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2009)
- Trahan v. Devon Energy Production Co., 2009 WL 56911 (W.D. La. 2009)
- Picard v. Kirk Key Interiock Co., LLC, 2008 WL 565465 (M.D. La. 2008)
- Parker v. Arco Oil & Gas Co., 2007 WL 4299426 (E.D. La. 2007)
- Marketfare Annunciation, LLC v. United Fire & Cas. Co., 2007 WL 4144944 (E.D. La. 2007)
- Whitehead v. ABB Lummus Global BV, 235 Fed. Appx. 241 (5th Cir.(La.) 2007)
- Meadors Disaster Recovery, Ltd. v. Haynie, 2007 WL 1655918 (E.D. Tex. 2007)
- Regan v. Respironics, Inc., 2007 WL 550064 (E.D. La. 2007)
- Foreman v. Auto Club Family Ins.o., 2007 WL 38365 (E.D. La. 2007)
- Steward v. P O Investments Inc., 191 Fed. Appx. 271 (5th Cir.(La.) 2006)
- Smith v. Gaubert Oil Co., Inc., 169 Fed. Appx. 920 (5th Cir.(La.) 2006)
- Gulf South Pipeline Co., LP v. Devon Energy Corp., 2006 WL 622725 (E.D. La. 2006)
- Dishon v. Ponthie, 918 So.2d 1132 (La. App. 3 Cir. 2005)
- Steward v. P.O. Investments, Inc., 2005 WL 1630051 (W.D. La. 2005)
- Smith v. Enervest Operating, L.L.C., 2005 WL 1630023 (W.D. La. 2005)
- Ventola v. Hall, 861 So.2d 677 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2003)
- Terry F. Day, Inc. v. Moore, 815 So.2d 335 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2002)
- Louisiana Gaming Management, Inc. v. Calegan, 786 So.2d 159 (La. App. 4 Cir. 2001)
- Applegarth v. Transamerican Refining Corp., 781 So.2d 804 (La. App. 5 Cir. 2001)
- Crane v. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc., 743 So.2d 780 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1999)
- Baye v. Samson Ocean Systems, Inc., 734 So.2d 147 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1999)
- Specialty Food Systems, Inc. v. Reliance Ins. Co. of Illinois, 45 F.Supp.2d 541 (E.D. La. 1999)
- Layman v. City of New Orleans ex rel. New Orleans Convention, 753 So.2d 254 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1998)
- McGregor v. Boudreaux and Lamy, 727 So.2d 1177 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1998)
- Shamsnia v. United Sen/ices Auto. Ass'n, 701 So.2d 1051 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1997)
- Averett v. Diamond Offshore Drilling Services, Inc., 980 F. Supp. 855 (E.D. La. 1997)
- Tello on Behalf of Tello v. Ramada Inn, Inc., 697 So.2d 358 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1997)
- Hays v. Hansen, 692 So.2d 3 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1997)
- Dunne v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., 679 So.2d 1034 (La. App. 1 Cir. 1996)
- Noble v. Armstrong, 670 So.2d 1280 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1996)
- Debaillon v. Steffes, 195 B.R. 362 (M.D. La. 1996)
- Ritchey v. Ledoux, 164 F.R.D. 186 (E.D. La. 1995)
- Goldman v. Offshore Nav. Inc., 662 So.2d 31 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1995)
- Beis v. Bowers, 649 So.2d 1094 (La.App. 4 Cir. 1995)
- Ferruzzi, U.S.A., Inc. v. RJ. Tricon Co., Inc., 645 So.2d 685 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1994)
- Noble v. Armstrong, 635 So.2d 1199 (La. App. 5 Cir. 1994)
- Washington v. Department of Transp., 8 F.3d 296 (5th Cir.(La.) 1993)
- Doucet v. City of Eunice, 620 So.2d 519 (La. App. 3 Cir. 1993)
- Caston v. Centers for Psychotherapy, Inc., 619 So.2d 1140 (La. App. 4 Cir. 1993)
- Loeber v. U.S., 803 F. Supp. 1154 (E.D. La. 1992)
- Fanguy v. Lexington Insurance Company
- Butler v. Bevrotte, et al
- Dupree v. José (Joseph) Nelson Dorta, et al
- Terre Matranga, et al v. Parish Anesthesia of Jefferson, LLC, et al
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