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This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to augmentation of the administrative record following new rationales, attempted alternative ERISA causes of action, untimely ERISA claims, plans governed by ERISA even in the absence of a written plan document, and the limited weight given to residual...

This month’s Friday Five covers cases relating to the interpretation of time periods for claims under life insurance and disability plans, a situation where three separate administrators handled a disability benefits claim (but came to different decisions), the Eleventh Circuit’s parsing of...

Michael Joyce assists clients with litigation, including a wide variety of commercial disputes and insurance matters. His commercial litigation experience includes high-stakes contractual disputes, intellectual property and software cases, trade secret misappropriation and other injunction matters...

Geoff Gamble is a litigator who focuses on insurance disputes, consumer financial services matters, and shareholder issues. He has extensive experience handling these and other complex commercial matters in federal and state courts and before private arbitration panels. Geoff represents insurance...

Stephanie Denker focuses on complex commercial litigation, including insurance and securities law. In the Insurance industry, Stephanie has experience in lapse litigation, primarily in New York. Stephanie also defends insurance companies in class actions, including cases brought in Illinois, Florida...

Ted Baines is a partner and past chair of Saul Ewing's Litigation Department. He focuses his litigation practice on commercial contract, insurance, shareholder disputes, including shareholder demand responses, real estate, construction, and the defense of mass torts involving deaths or catastrophic...

Charlie Lizza brings more than 40 years of litigation experience to his representation of pharmaceutical companies in high stakes patent litigation. Mr. Lizza concentrates his practice in Hatch-Waxman ANDA litigation and protecting the intellectual property of branded pharmaceutical and medical...

Amy Kline is a commercial litigator whose practice is focused on the representation of insurers and reinsurers in complex civil litigation. She is co-chair of the firm's Insurance Group and a member of the Executive Committee. Amy has extensive trial and appellate experience in federal and state...

Caitlin Piccarello Strauss is a commercial litigator who represents companies in disputes involving insurance, employee benefits and ERISA, real estate, and restrictive covenants. As a leader of the Firm's Employee Benefits and ERISA Litigation team, she regularly defends insurers in life, health...

Teresa "Terri" R. Tracy represents management in labor and employment litigation and related legal matters. Her experience includes issues involving wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour, class action, union organizing campaigns, grievances and arbitrations, and collective bargaining...

Matt Haar draws on more than 20 years of experience as a litigator to handle corporate and commercial disputes, including cases involving insurance and reinsurance, energy and permitting, and clean energy. Beyond this industry-specific work, Matt represents companies across an array of industries...

Hilda Piloto is a skilled trial lawyer with over 20 years of experience advising clients, trying cases and negotiating complex civil disputes. She has handled significant international and local complex civil litigation matters involving the prosecution and defense of commercial partnership, fraud...

Katherine "Katie" Barrett Wiik is a litigator with more than 17 years of experience handling federal and state appellate matters and litigation disputes. Katie has served as lead attorney in dozens of appeals and secured favorable outcomes for clients before the Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuits...

Kayleigh Keilty is an experienced trial attorney who represents companies in Maryland and across the country in litigation in state and federal courts, particularly in civil matters involving antitrust claims, litigation funding and class actions. Kayleigh also handles complex commercial and...

Jared Hawk is an experienced trial attorney who handles litigation matters for clients ranging from start-ups to product designers and manufacturers to large players in the energy industry. Jared's courtroom experience includes successes in federal, state and appellate courts across the county in...

Jim Gkonos focuses his practice of almost 40 years on insurance and reinsurance regulatory matters, contract and treaty interpretation and reinsurance disputes. As a former division general counsel of a large domestic property and casualty carrier, Jim has significant experience with the regulatory...

Andrea Lipuma is a partner in the Litigation Practice, with secondary assignments to the Energy, Public Utilities, and Environmental groups. Andrea has significant experience representing clients in litigation matters in New Jersey state and federal courts, including class actions, toxic torts...

Jim Morsch assists corporate clients with a wide variety of disputes involving insurance, antitrust and commercial law, as well as class action litigation. A trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience, Jim litigates cases in state, federal and appellate courts and routinely has matters in...

Toby Eveland is a skilled litigator and trial advocate for clients who are involved in high-profile cases that pose a risk to their reputation and complex business disputes that could affect their viability. His courtroom experience includes successes in state, federal, and appellate courts across...

Tricia Duffy maintains a general litigation practice and handles a variety of matters involving complex commercial disputes. Tricia has experience advising institutions of higher education on matters involving Title IX and affirmative action, as well responding to OCR investigations. Recently, she...