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Kathryn (Katy) Caraway

Kathryn (Katy) Caraway

Partner

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Katy Caraway is an AV rated experienced litigator and advocate. Ms. Caraway defends individual healthcare providers and hospitals in medical malpractice cases. She assists physicians, nurses, and therapists in professional board disciplinary matters. Ms. Caraway also represents insurance companies in personal injury and first party insurance claims. In addition to being a litigator and advocate, she also drafts, reviews, and negotiates healthcare, lease, personal services, and employment related contracts.

Ms. Caraway earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications from Newcomb College of Tulane University. She completed her law degree at Loyola University School of Law. She met her law partner, Ann LeBlanc, when both worked as journalists before law school. Ms. Caraway has been selected as a “Super Lawyer” from 2013-2016 and 2019 – 2021. She is a member of the A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court. She serves on the board of Shelter Resources, which focuses on affordable housing and social services for elderly residents in New Orleans.

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Ms. Caraway earned her bachelor’s degree in Communications from Newcomb College of Tulane University. She completed her law degree at Loyola Law School. She met her law partner, Ann LeBlanc, when both worked as journalists before law school. Ms. Caraway has been selected as a "Super Lawyer" from 2013-2016 and 2019 – 2021.  She is a member of the AP Tureaud American Inn of Court. She serves on the board of Shelter Resources, which focuses on affordable housing and social services for elderly residents in New Orleans.

Ann Marie LeBlanc

Ann Marie LeBlanc

Partner

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Ann Marie LeBlanc is one of the founding members of Caraway LeBlanc, L.L.C., which was formed in 2007. She is an experienced litigator in the area of medical malpractice, focusing her practice on the defense of nursing homes, physicians, and other individual health care professionals. She has also defended nursing homes in regulatory matters and defendants in complex and high-profile litigation. Additionally, she advises her clients on complicated risk management issues.

AV Preeminent

Ms. LeBlanc graduated from Loyola University School of Law where she was a member of the Loyola Law Review and Moot Court Board and where she is now an Adjunct Professor in Bioethics and the Law. Ms. LeBlanc was named a “Super Lawyer” in 2013 and 2021 and enjoys an AV rating (the highest rating possible) by Martindale Hubbell. She is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association, the New Orleans Bar Association, the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization and on the executive committee of the A.P. Tureaud American Inn of Court. She is also a commissioner on the Lakeview Crime Prevention District and was the president of one of the largest civic associations in the Greater New Orleans Area, the Lakeview Civic Improvement Association, from 2013-2015, and the recipient of The Order of St. Louis IX award in 2007 from the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Erica Andrews

Erica Andrews

Associate

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Erica Andrews had a solo practice in various areas of law for four years and was named a 2014 LIFT (Legal Innovators for Tomorrow) Fellow and 2014-2016 LIFT Incubator Attorney by the Louisiana State Bar Association before joining Caraway LeBlanc as an associate in 2017.

For seven years Ms. Andrews has successfully represented physicians in many specialties, nurses, physician assistants, hospitals, outpatient clinics, surgery centers, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare providers throughout Louisiana in both district and appellate courts. For over four years, she has also successfully defended both insurers and their insureds in state and federal courts including successful settlements in a multitude of cases. She has extensive experience in various aspects of insurance defenses, including coverage exclusions and bad faith actions.

Ms. Andrews is a native of New Orleans. She earned her BA in Psychology from Tulane University and later received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola University College of Law where she served as a member of the Journal of Public Interest Law. She then served on the Access to Justice Committee and Gap Subcommittee of the Louisiana Bar Association for a few years to expand access to those unable to afford legal services.

She is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Eastern, Middle, and Western Districts of Louisiana as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Ms. Andrews is a member of the Louisiana Bar Association and the New Orleans Bar Association.

Mary Margaret H. Moore

Mary Margaret H. Moore

Associate

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Mary Margaret H. Moore is a dedicated litigator with a lifelong passion for supporting and defending healthcare. She is a Cum Laude graduate of Loyola University College of Law, where she completed her Juris Doctor and Certificate in Health Law. While attending Loyola, Ms. Moore was a Law Dean’s Scholar, an Executive Board Member of the Student Bar Association, a Student Participant on the New Faculty Search Committee, and she received the highest grade in the class in numerous law school courses, including Ms. LeBlanc’s course on Bioethics and the Law. Ms. Moore is also a Cum Laude graduate of the University of Mississippi, where she completed a Bachelor of Arts in English.

Her passion for healthcare extends beyond the courtroom and into the field of advocacy. In 2021, Ms. Moore was named the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency’s Donation Advocate of the year as a result of her efforts to promote organ, eye, and tissue donation as Miss Mississippi 2019 and 2020. She is currently active in the Louisiana State Bar Association and is licensed to practice as an attorney and counselor at law in all courts of the State of Louisiana.