Dan is a leader within Reed Smith's vast and touted Global Commercial Disputes Group and in its managed care, health care, and insurance recovery practice areas. Dan’s practice includes complex commercial litigation, trial work and arbitrations, as well as business counseling and work with and before regulatory and administrative agencies. He serves as the lead lawyer for various managed care and other national and regional companies. He is also the national coordinating and trial counsel for numerous managed care and other companies with respect to insurance recovery and indemnification efforts. Additionally, Dan has significant experience with patent, trademark, antitrust, and shareholder’s rights issues and litigation.
In his nearly 30 years of practice, Dan has been the lead trial lawyer in scores of high stakes trials, administrative actions, arbitrations and mediations. Dan is a trusted and skilled advocate, advisor and negotiator, and one many companies see as a true counselor, as well as a tireless trial lawyer. Dan’s successes and his valued advice over the years have set him apart and have galvanized client relationships that have thrived for decades. By way of recent examples, Dan is the lead trial lawyer in two separate actions in the Virginia state courts where TROs were sought by large, leading hospital systems from two different courts for a managed care client he has represented for more than two decades. Both TROs were successfully defeated for his client. Dan was the lead trial lawyer for yet another managed care company that received a complete defense verdict from a Louisiana federal court jury concerning a significant payment dispute and purported misrepresentations with respect to a well-known provider group, as well as a complete defense verdict in a North Carolina federal court for another managed care client over a highly complex contract dispute. Dan was also lead trial counsel in a multi-venued dispute in Georgia for a managed care company that resulted in high-value state contract being awarded to his client. Moreover, Dan argued before the Indiana Supreme Court and secured one of the more significant insurance coverage decisions in favor of managed care companies recovering under their respective E&O insurance policies. Dan also had a significant motion to dismiss granted that ended a highly contentious federal court action filed in the Middle District of Florida by a pharmaceutical company challenging his managed care client’s exclusion of their drug from its formularies.
Dan’s work on behalf of his clients is national in scope and involves many of the more challenging issues and disputes a managed care, health care or other company may face. His advice, approach and perspective is often sought out by in-house lawyers, business executives and boards alike. And while his extensive arbitration and mediation work is largely confidential, his success and work with some of the most renown arbitrators and mediators in the country is well known and appreciated, particularly in the managed care/health care, commercial and insurance recovery arenas.
