C. Bennett Long

C. Bennett Long is a native of Mobile, Alabama and was born there in 1978. In 2005, he was admitted to the Alabama State Bar, U.S. District Court, Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama.

Education: University of Alabama (B.S., with distinction (2001)); Cumberland School of Law – Samford University (J.D., cum laude (2005)). Member and Associate Editor of the Cumberland Law Review. Author of Comment published in the 2004-05, Volume 35 Cumberland Law Review entitled “Products Liability and the Merger Doctrine: The Alabama Extended Manufacturers Liability Doctrine Is No Longer the Sole Vehicle of Recourse for Plaintiffs in Alabama”.

Member: Mobile County Bar Association and the Alabama State Bar.

Upon graduation from law school, Mr. Long returned to his native Mobile, where he began to specialize in representing policyholders on a nationwide basis in Commercial & Residential Property Insurance Claim Disputes.

In 2004 and 2005 respectively, Hurricanes Ivan and Katrina made landfall on the upper Gulf Coast. Mr. Long’s family experienced severe damage to their commercial and residential holdings in the area. After experiencing the inequitable manner in which these bad faith insurance claims were initially underpaid by the insurance companies, Mr. Long used his legal background to attain additional recovery on behalf of his family’s holdings. Since that time, Bennett Long has devoted his practice to the representation and advocacy of insurance policyholders in property loss and business interruption claims resulting from hurricanes, wind/hail storms, tornados, flood, fire, etc. Mr. Long has been in involved with hundreds of property claims that have collected millions of dollars in the last several years through settlements on behalf of his clients. Mr. Long stresses the importance of insurance policyholders knowing their rights and the proper way to present an insurance claim for payment when dealing with sophisticated insurance companies before, during and after a property claim. Mr. Long’s overriding focus is to maximize the policyholder’s recovery from the insurance company on each and every property and business interruption claim.

Mr. Long is a partner in the law firm of Huber, Slack, Houghtaling, Pandit & Thomas, LLP.  The firm has offices in Mobile, Tuscaloosa and New Orleans.  Mr. Long and his partners have collectively handled over 5,000 first party property claims as a result of Hurricanes Ivan, Katrina, Gustav and Ike in addition to other catastrophic events such as fires, tornados, wind and hail storms.

Outside of work, Mr. Long is  an avid hunter, fisherman and conservationist. Mr. Long and his wife have two young sons, Charlie (2.5 years) and Brooks (4 months).

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