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Life, Health, Disability, and ERISA Litigation
Utilizing our network of offices throughout the Mountain West, Holland & Hart's geographically diverse team has extensive experience with the defense of employee benefits and life, health, disability, and ERISA insurance litigation. We have handled hundreds of cases in Holland & Hart's seven-state footprint, as well as in many neighboring states.
We extensively represent employers, insurers and plan administrators in employee benefit litigation (involving both ERISA and non-ERISA covered plans). Our work encompasses litigation concerning both pension and welfare benefit plans. We have extensive experience in litigation involving both insured and self-funded benefit plans.
Holland & Hart lawyers also have broad experience in litigating claims arising in connection with individual life, health, disability, and fiduciary insurance policies. We have tried a number of cases under various states' contract, bad faith, and consumer protection laws.
Breadth of Experience
Our experience includes litigation concerning virtually every type of employee benefit plan, including:
- Pension plans (defined benefit, defined contribution, cash balance, and state pension systems)
- Severance plans (especially in the context of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures)
- Life insurance
- Insured and self-funded disability benefits
- Health benefit plans, including PPOs, HMOs, and multi-employer trusts
- Representing employers in private and governmental investigations
- Fiduciary litigation
- U.S. Department of Labor disputes
- Advice before, during, and after reorganizations, sales, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures
- Advice concerning plan administration
Class Actions
Holland & Hart attorneys handle large multi-plaintiff and class action cases brought under ERISA. We have defended class actions relating to pension plans, health plans, severance plans, and employee benefit issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Our experience includes successful litigation of class certification issues. By using private extranets and other technology tools, we can cost effectively gather and control evidence and facilitate timely communication between your attorneys or among multiple firms working on your matter.
Regional Coverage
Holland & Hart's regional office network is completely integrated with respect to both technology and expertise. Lawyers from all offices are typically able to leverage their expertise by working together on matters in any given state in the Rocky Mountain Region. This allows us to offer depth of expertise in venues in which it can otherwise be difficult to find qualified counsel.
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Holland & Hart litigators have no less than 19 Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals opinions to their credit. Recent opinions include the following: - Williams v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 459 Fed. Appx. 719 (10th Cir. 2012)
- Rosenweig v. Manville, 422 Fed. Appx. 709 (10th Cir. 2011)
- McClenahan v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 416 Fed. Appx. 693 (10th Cir. 2011)
- Rizzi v. Hartford Life and Acc. Ins. Co., 383 Fed. Appx. 738 (10th Cir. 2010)
- Hancock v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 590 F.3d 1141 (10th Cir. 2009)
- Scruggs v. ExxonMobil Pension Plan, 585 F.3d 1356 (10th Cir. 2009)
- Chalker v. Raytheon Co., 291 Fed. Appx. 138 (10th Cir. 2008)
- Jewell v. Life Ins. Co. of North America, 508 F.3d 1303 (10th Circ. 2007)
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