Richard focuses his
practice on complex litigation and regulatory matters, with particular emphasis
on health care payor/provider disputes, life insurance fraud actions, business
practices, claims handling practices, reinsurance, trade secrets, insolvency,
and inter-company disputes. He regularly represents business entities,
including insurers, health plans, underwriters and holding companies in a
variety of contexts, such as federal and state class actions, arbitrations,
administrative hearings, regulatory investigations and market conduct
examinations. He also counsels and defends insurers and managed health care
plans in actions involving ERISA benefit claims and breach of fiduciary duties.
He is a member of
Maynard’s Insurance and Financial Services Litigation Practice and ERISA
Practice.
Prior to Maynard, Richard worked with a national law
firm in Los Angeles and was a legal associate for Activision, a producer and
distributor of video games, where his practice consisted primarily of
transactional work, as well as intellectual property registration and
enforcement. Prior to his legal career, Richard was a senior analyst at
DecisionQuest, Inc., a trial consulting firm, where he provided jury consulting
services on a wide range of litigation matters.