- Obtained dismissal of a class action against a major insurance company challenging pricing practices.
- Defended several life insurance companies in sales practices class actions brought in state and federal courts on behalf of all U.S. policyholders, and separate class actions on behalf of Mexican, Central, and South American policyholders.
- Obtained dismissal of a class action challenging defendants’ practices concerning payment of usual, customary, and reasonable medical charges.
- Obtained summary judgment for a nationwide mortgage company in a putative class action asserting alleged violations of the Texas Insurance Code.
- Obtained dismissal of a major insurance company in a class action lawsuit filed in Tennessee state court challenging the pricing of insurance.
- Represented a life insurance company in a nationwide class action involving claims for fraud relating to “vanishing premium policies.” The class consisted of all purchasers of the insurance policies claimed to be defective.
- Achieved summary judgment for an automobile insurance carrier in state and federal class actions alleging unfair claim practices and consumer fraud in the use of non-OEM parts to repair automobiles.
- Represented an insurer in a putative class action relating to alleged discrimination in automobile insurance rates.
- Represented insurance companies in class actions alleging bad faith relating to insurance coverage and claims handling.
- Defended individual directors and officers of a mutual insurer in a class action and derivative claims for their alleged “demutualization” of the mutual and conversion of its surplus.
- Served as national counsel for an insurance company in class actions related to force-placed single interest insurance policies, obtaining one dismissal and negotiating individual settlements in several other cases.
- Defeated class certification of racketeering, fraud, breach of contract, and other claims on behalf of one of the nation’s largest casualty insurance providers in a number of related class actions alleging a 15-year, industry-wide conspiracy to evade regulation.
- National counsel for a large defendant in Sandwich Chef of Texas, Inc. v. Reliance Indemnity Ins. Co., et al., 319 F.3rd 205 (5th Cir. 2003), resulting in a Fifth Circuit opinion reversing class certification in case alleging conspiracy to defraud.
- Obtained dismissal of numerous price-fixing cases involving retrospectively rated insurance policies, as well as defeat of certification.
- Secured dismissal of claims against an insurance carrier in a class action alleging violation of the Consumer Fraud Act related to selling life insurance to Spanish-speaking consumers without an English-to-Spanish translation of terms.
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