CMN is nationally-renowned for its extensive and long-standing representation of the life, health and disability insurance industry. The firm is a recognized leader in this field and consistently ranks as one of the nation’s top life, health and disability insurance law firms in industry surveys. The firm has long been a highly-recommended firm in The Select List of Law Firms published by Res Loquitor Corporation. To qualify for inclusion in The Select List, a firm must be evaluated by at least 5 life, health or disability insurance companies in 16 separate areas related to law firm performance and must place in the top one-third of all law firms. CMN was honored to receive evaluations placing it in the top 10% nationally.
CMN’s life, health and disability practice is distinguished by its highly successful litigation record covering a broad range of issues affecting the industry. In addition to defending clients in a wide range of policy claims, CMN lawyers have deep experience representing life, health and disability insurers, third-party administrators, and plan administrators/fiduciaries in all manner of market conduct litigation, ERISA benefit, fiduciary liability and pension litigation, complex and class action litigation, agent/broker disputes, managed health care litigation, insurance tax litigation, insurance regulatory issues, employment-related litigation, real estate litigation and general commercial and business litigation. The firm also counsels clients frequently on regulatory issues important to many facets of our clients’ business operations.
Our Life, Health and Disability Insurance team of lawyers are leaders in the field. CMN boasts three firm members who have been elected to the Association of Life Insurance Counsel and all of our attorneys stay on the leading edge of developments in the life, health and disability insurance area. For years, the firm has authored the well-known survey of case law affecting the industry published annually in the American Bar Association’s Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Law Journal as “Recent Developments in Life, Health and Disability Insurance Law.” CMN lawyers are active leaders in industry organizations such as the Defense Research Institute’s Life, Health and Disability Committee, the American Bar Associations’ Life Insurance Law, Health Insurance Law and Employee Benefits Law Committees and the Law Committee of the International Claims Association, among others. In addition, to publishing frequently on current issues important to the industry, CMN attorneys are regularly called upon to speak at continuing legal education seminars and in-house client training conferences.
Representative Matters:
This list illustrates the breadth of our experience over the last several years.
- Successful defense of multi-million dollar nationwide market conduct class action against major life insurer
- Represent major managed care organization in defense of nationwide class action alleging claims of breach of contract based on group plan modifications
- Representation of some of nation’s largest managed care organizations seeking recovery of state guaranty fund assessments based on Medicare premiums
- Counsel for major life and health insurer in tax litigation seeking recovery of more than $18 million in capital stock tax assessments
- Serve as national counsel for large third-party administrator handling ERISA claims litigation across the country
- Successful defense of stop-loss carrier against breach of contract claims based on misrepresentations at renewal
- Summary judgment in favor of disability insurance carrier on large dollar group disability claim affirmed on appeal
- Dismissal of state and federal race and sex discrimination claims brought by employees of large life insurance company
- Successful defense of nationwide class action suit against life and disability insurer based on alleged discrimination under the Americans With Disabilities Act
- Successfully tried to verdict breach of contract claim by stop-loss insurer against former group policyholder
- Successful appeal before the Illinois Supreme Court on behalf of life insurance client in lawsuit involving the relationship between the contestability period in policy and conditional receipt.