Disputes and Litigation in the Managed Care Industry: Mitigating Risk and Practical Guide

Molly Moriarty Lane is a partner in Morgan Lewis’s Litigation Practice and Managing Partner of the San Francisco office. Ms. Lane focuses her practice on complex litigation in California state and federal courts across a range of industries, including the healthcare, retail, technology, and financial services sectors. Ms. Lane represents clients through the entire litigation life cycle, from pre-litigation counseling to trials and appeals.

In the healthcare sector, Ms. Lane represents health plans, health insurers, prescription benefit management companies, and related entities in a wide variety of matters, including consumer and unfair competition class actions, claims for bad faith denial of benefits, policy rescission actions, pharmaceutical litigation, and general commercial disputes.  In the retail and technology sectors, Ms. Lane has a strong background in class and individual claims for breach of contract, business torts, unfair competition, trade secret theft, antitrust, defamation, and copyright violations. 

Ms. Lane is admitted to practice in California and before the U.S. District Courts for Northern, Eastern, Central, and Southern Districts of California and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Mary Beth Edwards is a Managing Director in the Washington, DC office of Navigant and is the national leader for Navigant’s Payer, Provider and Pharmacy sector of the Dispute, Compliance and Investigations practice.  Ms. Edwards provides consulting and expert testimony services relating to the payment and adjudication of healthcare services and benefits, often in the context of contractual or regulatory disputes or investigations.  Her experience includes working with payers (commercial and government-sponsored programs), providers (acute care providers, ancillary providers, pharmacies) and manufacturers.

Steve Kasten is a Partner in the law firm of Looney Cohen & Aisenberg, LLP, located in Boston, Massachusetts.  He has more than 20 years of experience trying, arbitrating and assisting clients in resolving significant business disputes, professional liability claims, and class actions.  Steve regularly represents health care providers, provider organizations and managed care plans in a variety of business disputes, whether between providers and plans, among constituents within health care organizations, or in defense of class actions.  He has significant experience with ERISA issues and claims, both in relation to health plans and retirement plans.  Steve has received the highest Martindale Hubbell peer rating of AV-Preeminent™ and appears regularly as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer® for business litigation.  He serves on the American Arbitration Association’s roster of arbitrators for commercial disputes.