Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts
Best's Insurance Professional Resources
Client-Recommended Attorneys, Adjusters and Experts


Best's Recommended Insurance Attorneys - General Defense

3500 Blue Lake Drive, Suite 345, Birmingham, Alabama 35243

Practice Areas

  • Insurance Coverage
  • Insurance Defense
  • Extra-Contractual Liability
  • General Liability
  • Property
  • Marine
  • Inland Marine
  • Business Interruption
  • Public Sector
  • Flood
  • Excess and Umbrella
  • Litigation
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction Law
  • State and Federal Courts
  • Employment/Non-Competition

About Us

Ely, McCurry, & Hunter, LLC is a firm with more than seventy years of combined experience in handling all aspects of first and third party insurance claims and complex coverage and extra-contractual litigation across multiple lines of insurance. The firm also handles insurer versus insurer, general commercial, and insurance defense litigation.

Centrally located in Birmingham, Alabama, our lawyers are licensed to practice in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, and South Carolina and regularly represent clients in those states in both federal and state courts.

As part of our insurance coverage practice, we provide advice to clients regarding issues arising under multiple types of liability and property policies and have extensive experience working with clients in all stages of a claim and, if necessary, through litigation. We assist clients with appraisals, examinations under oath, coverage opinions, and pre-litigation strategic planning in order to fully evaluate potential early paths to resolution. We also work with our clients to seek resolutions through alternative dispute resolution procedures, whether through mediation, arbitration, or otherwise. In the event that litigation does become necessary, either through the filing of a declaratory judgment action or in defense of a lawsuit, our lawyers have decades of experience representing our insurance industry clients in venues in multiple states - whether in state or federal court, and whether at the trial level or an appellate court.

How We Offer Value

Our firm has more than seventy years of combined insurance coverage experience across a wide variety of lines of insurance. As a result, the lawyers in our firm are well-versed in the law and issues that arise in coverage litigation from the outset, which reduces costs and the risk of potential surprises. Due to our experience, we are uniquely positioned to offer creative solutions on the wide range of issues that arise in a claim or in litigation and apply a high level of analytical depth to those issues in a financially efficient manner.

Client Information

Insurance Clients

Personnel Information

Firm Members


Emily W. Bynum

Birmingham, AL

Admitted
  • Alabama, 2006
  • U.S. District Court, Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
Memberships:
  • Alabama State Bar
  • Birmingham Bar Association
Education:
  • Rhodes College, B.A., 2001
  • Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 2006
Honors:
Fellow, Judge Abraham Carruthers; Janie L. Shores Competition, Associate Justice; Henry Upson Sims Moot Court Board Member

Brenen G. Ely

Birmingham, AL

Practice Areas
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Construction Defect
  • Coverage Analysis
  • Coverage Disputes
  • Coverage Issues
  • Coverage Litigation
  • Coverage Opinions
  • Business Interruption
  • Builders Risk
  • Arson
  • Bad Faith and Coverage
  • Environmental Coverage
  • Excess and Reinsurance
  • Negligent Security
  • Premises Liability Litigation
  • Primary and Excess Insurance
  • Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist
  • Bad Faith Litigation
  • Extra-Contractual Litigation
  • Complex Civil Litigation
  • Trucking Litigation
  • Surplus Lines
Admitted
  • Alabama, 1994
  • Mississippi
  • Tennessee, 2022
  • U.S. District Court, Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth and Eleventh Circuits
Memberships:
  • American and Birmingham Bar Associations
  • Alabama State Bar
  • The Mississippi Bar
Education:
  • Auburn University, B.A. (magna cum laude), 1991
  • The University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 1994

Seth T. Hunter

Birmingham, AL

Admitted
  • Alabama, 2010
  • Tennessee, 2011
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
  • U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
Memberships:
  • American, Tennessee and Birmingham Bar Associations
  • Alabama State Bar
Education:
  • The University of Mississippi, B.A., 2007
  • Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 2010

Susan Haygood McCurry

Birmingham, AL

Practice Areas
  • Insurance Coverage
  • Declaratory Judgments
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Coverage Opinions
  • Coverage Disputes
  • Coverage Analysis
  • Coverage Issues
Admitted
  • Alabama, 1996
  • Georgia
  • South Carolina, 1998
  • U.S. District Court, Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
  • U.S. District Court, Middle District of Georgia
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Education:
  • Randolph-Macon Woman's College, A.B., 1992
  • Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1996

Lauren A. Wiggins

Birmingham, AL

Practice Areas
  • Coverage Disputes
  • Declaratory Judgments
  • Extra-Contractual Litigation
  • Insurance Coverage
Admitted
  • Alabama, 2020
  • Arkansas, 2023
  • U.S. District Court, Middle, Northern and Southern Districts of Alabama
Memberships:
  • Alabama State Bar
Education:
  • Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, J.D. (cum laude), 2020

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