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Representative Experience

• Defended international financial services company in a claim for medical benefits. This case was settled.
• Defended wholesale distributor in connection with a class action filed with respect to 401(k) benefits. This case was settled.
• Defended national employee benefits administrator in connection with a breach of fiduciary duty claim involving beneficiary of life insurance proceeds. Successfully negotiated favorable resolution.
• Represented third party administrator in connection with claims for distribution and breach of fiduciary duty related to failure to diversify plan assets and succeeded in having numerous claims dismissed, pending.
• Defended international telecommunications company in connection with pension plan participant’s claim for benefits in excess of actual entitlement. Motion to dismiss granted; case settled on favorable terms while appeal pending.
• Obtained summary judgment for international telecommunications company in the defense of claims that plaintiff was improperly denied disability benefits and that plaintiff’s employment was terminated for the purpose of interfering with plaintiff’s rights under ERISA. This case was settled on favorable terms after plaintiff appealed to the Sixth Circuit.
• Represented international telecommunications company against a claim that its failure to credit service under the Pension Plan for maternity leave taken prior to the enactment of the Pregnancy Discrimination Act violated Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, Ohio’s sex discrimination laws and ERISA.
• Obtained summary judgment for financial holding company in connection with its exercise of its rights of reimbursement and subrogation under its self-insured medical plan. Also defended counterclaim against this company for breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA.
• Represented a banking and trust company in a breach of fiduciary duty claim arising out of alleged failure to timely invest plan assets.
• Defended national paint manufacturer in connection with a series of multi-employer pension plan withdrawal liability disputes. The case proceeded through arbitration, all the way to the United States Supreme Court and was ultimately settled.
• Defended financial services company in a dispute over employee’s entitlement to death benefit related to dependent life insurance, and claims of breach of fiduciary duty. Obtained summary judgment at trial court level; affirmed on appeal.
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of a client accused of breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA for failing to provide spousal death benefit coverage to employee. Summary judgment affirmed on appeal by the Tenth District Court of Appeals.
• Defended national banking institution, accused of breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA for failing to timely invest participants’ contributions to the pension and profit-sharing plan of a major insurance carrier.