Andrew D. Sweat has practiced with Wise Carter for over 30 years focusing on workers’ compensation and insurance defense.

Andy represents and defends employers, carriers, and self-insurers in all aspects of workers’ compensation claims. In addition, Andy helps workers’ compensation self-insurers with a variety of regulatory and compliance issues affecting them.

He has represented the Self-Insurance Guaranty Associations since their inception. He has defended employers and carriers and has served as a defense expert in bad faith actions relating to workers’ compensation claims.

• University of Mississippi 1974, B.A.
• University of Mississippi 1977, M.S.
• University of Mississippi School of Law, 1984, J.D.

• Mississippi State and Federal Courts

• American Bar Association
• Capital Area Bar Association
• Mississippi Bar Association
• Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
• National Workers' Compensation Defense Network
• The College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2007-2021:
  - Workers’ Compensation Law: Employers
• Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2019: Jackson, MS - Workers' Compensation Law - Employers "Lawyer of the Year"

• Sawyer v. Illinois Central Gulf Rail Company, 606 So. 2d 1069 (Miss. 1992)
• Entergy Mississippi, Inc. v. Robinson, 777 So. 2d 53 (Miss. Ct. App. 2000)
• McCray v. Key Constructors, Inc., 803 So. 2d 1199 (Miss. Ct. App. 2000)
• Hardaway Co. v. Bradley, 887 So. 2d 793 (Miss. 2004)
• McMillian v. Delphi Packard Electric Systems, 921 So. 2d 345 (Miss. Ct. App. 2004)
• Baker v. IGA Super Valu Food Store, 990 So. 2d 254 (Miss. Ct. App. 2008)
• Weathersby v. Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Inc., 195 So.3d 877 (Miss. Ct. App. 2016)
• Mississippi Manufacturers Ass'n Workers' Comp. Grp. v. Mississippi Workers' Comp. Grp. Self-Insurer Guar. Ass'n, 281 So. 3d 108 (Miss. Ct. App. 2019)
• Jones v. Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Inc., 294 So.3d 76 (Miss. 2020)