Mary E. McPherson

Mary McPherson handles complex coverage matters exclusively on behalf of the insurance industry. She is highly experienced in counseling and representing insurers in complex bad faith, asbestos, construction defect, additional insured, personal injury, environmental and primary/excess coverage issues on a nationwide basis. Mary is often brought in by insurers to assess and troubleshoot complex coverage issues in high exposure tort cases and assist them in reaching global settlements.

Mary has successfully defended insurers in trials involving advertising injury coverage for trade dress infringement and lost policy issues, as well as prosecuting contribution claims. She has established California law favorable to the insurance industry in Peerless Lighting Corp. v. American Motorists Ins. Co., 82 Cal. App. 4th 995 (2000) and Century Surety Co. v. United Pacific Ins. Co. 109 Cal. App. 4th 1246 (2003).

A California native, Mary joined Tressler’s Chicago office in 1989 after practicing in Colorado for three years. She opened the firm’s Los Angeles office in 1995, serving as that office’s Managing Partner for 10 years. Mary currently resides in the firm’s Orange County office. Mary was recently selected by her peers in 2021 and 2023 for The Best Lawyers in America© for Insurance Law.