Elizabeth is a partner in the firm's Litigation Group. She concentrates her practice in the defense of medical malpractice; life, health and disability insurance benefits; and ERISA cases. She serves as counsel for physicians, hospitals, medical groups and other health care providers in medical malpractice cases and in business and professional disputes. She represents physicians and other health care providers before their professional licensing boards. Elizabeth also serves as counsel for insurance companies in life, health and disability insurance claims brought under state law and under ERISA.
Representative Matters
- Successfully defended numerous physicians, nurses, medical groups and hospitals in medical malpractice cases at trial and arbitration
- Successfully represented physicians and nurses responding to complaints from the Board of Registration in Medicine and Nursing
- Represented a disability insurer before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in establishing the scope of de novo review in ERISA benefit claim determinations
- Obtained a jury verdict in federal district court for an insurer against an individual claiming total disability
- Obtained a ruling on behalf of an insurer in federal district court that the arbitrary and capricious standard of review applies when "proof must be satisfactory to [the insurer]" and that the insurer's decision ADD is a mental, not physical, illness, was reasonable
- Obtained a ruling on behalf of an insurer in federal district court that an administrative record could not be opened to admit evidence generated after a final decision on an ERISA claim
