Scott DeVries, the former chair of the insurance coverage practice at Winston & Strawn, has joined Hunton Andrews Kurth in San Francisco.

DeVries, who served as the firmwide managing partner of Nossaman for seven years prior to joining Winston in 2007 to head the firm’s insurance recovery practice, is joining his new firm as special counsel. He said that his move was motivated by Winston’s shift toward working for insurance companies rather than policyholders.