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Address
7 Dey Street, Suite 600
New York, New York 10007 (New York Co.)
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(Main Office) For more than 20 years, the Law Office of Mark Scherzer has advocated on behalf of consumers, policyholders, and employees to secure their rights to health, life and disability insurance benefits. Many of our clients have illnesses or conditions that are serious, chronic, and/or disabling, such as multiple sclerosis, heart disease, depression, degenerative spine disease, cancer and HIV/AIDS. We help our clients to obtain or keep appropriate coverage, navigating the transition from employment to disability (or from disability back to work). We advocate for them when insurers or employee benefit plans refuse to cover necessary treatments or to pay disability benefits. We have experience representing clients with a broad range of occupations (including physicians, truck drivers, office managers, stock brokers, film editors, attorneys, financial analysts, sales representatives, receptionists, computer/IT personnel, production managers, performing and visual artists and designers, and corporate executives) from a wide variety of employment settings. We also represent and protect the common interests of our clients in a number of additional ways, by advocating with legislators and regulators for reforms in insurance law and policy; engaging in major test case litigation on behalf of public interest groups; and speaking at policy roundtables, bar training and education programs, and informational presentations to advocacy groups and their members. Our attorneys, Mark Scherzer and A. Christopher Wieber, graduated from prominent law schools and trained at major law firms before devoting their professional lives to enforcing the rights of the ill and disabled to insurance coverage and benefits. When direct advocacy with insurance companies and employee benefit plans has failed, we have prosecuted lawsuits on behalf of our clients in both state and federal court. Statement of PracticeInsurance, Employee Benefits, ERISA, Short and Long Term Disability Claims, Disability Income and Overhead Insurance Claims, Life Insurance Claims, Medical and Hospitalization Insurance Claims (including coverage disputes involving Medical Necessity, Experimental or Investigational Treatments, Usual and Customary Rates, Pre-Existing Conditions), HMO Claims, COBRA Continuation Health Coverage, Conversion Policy Issues, Lump Sum Settlement Offers, Trial and Appellate Practice in New York State and Federal courts. Year Established: 1980
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Address7 Dey Street, Suite 600
New York, NY 10007, (New York Co.)
PhonePhone: 212-406-9606
Fax: 212-964-6903
Website
http://www.markscherzer.com
Office HoursMonday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Tuesday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Wednesday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Thursday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Friday: 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
Mark P. Scherzer (Member) born Bronx, New York, April 24, 1951; admitted to bar, 1979, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1980, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1985, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: Haverford College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1973); University of Chicago (M.A., Anthropology, 1975); Yale University (J.D., 1978). Recipient: Lambda Legal Defense, Jay C. Lipner Liberty Award, 1992; Community Service Award, Lesbian & Gay Law Association of Greater New York, 1992; Outstanding Service Award, Cancer Care, 1993. The Poz 50 (Most Influential AIDS Policymakers), Poz Magazine, Aug. - Sept. 1994; Certificate of Appreciation, American Bar Association, Commission on Women in the Profession Breast Cancer Initiative, 2002. Author: numerous practice guides and chapters on insurance issues, such as "AIDS Legal Guide," Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund, Inc., 1984, 1988; "AIDS and the Law," Yale University Press, 1987; "Sexual Orientation and the Law," Clark Boardman Co., Ltd., 1987, 1991,1992, 1994, 1998; "AIDS Law Today," Yale University Press, 1993; "Life and Disability Insurance," Positive Options, Body Positive of New York, Inc., 1995; "Losing the Insurer of Last Resort: New York Should Rein in Empire," The New York Times, Op-Ed Page, January, 1996; "The Changing Environment, A Report to the HIV Health and Human Services Planning Council of New York," (Co-Authors, Mark Aurigemma, Ruth Finkelstein, David Hansell, Derek Hodel), September 1997; "On Their Own: Individuals Pay the Price of Insurance Market Breakdown," (Co-Authors, Susan Dooha, Brian Cassel, Rhon Reynolds), New York Community Trust, August 1999; "Freedom to Lose: How Oxford Is Compromising the Health of Chronically Ill Patients," (Co-Authors: Glen von Nostitz, Susan Dooha, Frank Salisbury), New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage, November 1999. Member, Technical Advisory Committee, New York State Insurance Department, 1992, 1995-1998; Speaker, Sheldon Silver's New York Health Advisory Board, 1995, 1999; Health Care and Insurance Steering Committee, National Endowment for the Arts, 1996-1997. Steering Committee, Artists Health Insurance Resource Center; Cooperating Attorney, Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.; Mentor and Trainer, Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Robert B. McKay Community Outreach Law Program, Cancer Advocacy Project, National Multiple Sclerosis Society Insurance Task Force. Member, Advisory Board of Legal Health. Member: New York County Lawyers Association; New Yorkers for Accessible Health Coverage (Member, Steering Committee; Legislative Counsel). Reported Cases: Burke v. First UNUM Life Insurance Company of New York, 975 F. Supp. 310 (S.D.N.Y. 1997); Bradley v. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield, 562 N.Y.S. 2d 908 (Sup. Ct., N.Y. Co. 1990); Doe v. United Services Life Insurance Co., 123 F.R.D. 437 (S.D.N.Y. 1988); Fay v. Oxford Health Plan, 287 F.3d 96 (2d Cir. 2002); Fortune v. Medical Associates of Woodhull, 803 F. Supp. 636 (E.D.N.Y. 1992); Massachusetts Casualty Ins. Co. v. Morgan, 886 F. Supp. 1002 (E.D.N.Y. 1995); New England Mutual Life Insurance Co. v. Doe, 93 N.Y. 2d 122 (1999); Swensen v. Colonial Life Insurance Co. of America, 1993 WL 378470 (S.D.N.Y. 1993); Whitney v. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 920 F. Supp. 477 (S.D.N.Y. 1996); rev'd and remanded 106 F.3d 475 (2d Cir. 1997); Troy v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14965 (S.D.N.Y., Mar. 31. 2006); Noia v. Division 1181 ATU - New York Welfare Fund, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 68324 (E.D.N.Y., Sep. 14, 2007); Zurndorfer v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of America, 543 F. Supp. 2d 242 (S.D.N.Y., 2008). Practice Areas: Insurance Law; ERISA; Litigation; Lobbying; COBRA; Disability Benefits; Employee Benefit Litigation; ERISA Litigation; Health Benefits; Health Care Legislation; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Coverage; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Health Law; Managed Care; Disability Insurance; Insurance Contracts; Insurance Coverage; Life and Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Insurance Litigation.
——————————Christopher A. Wieber (Associate) born Norristown, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1962; admitted to bar, 1988, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. Education: University of Pennsylvania (B.A., magna cum laude, 1984); Harvard University (J.D., 1987). Phi Beta Kappa. Co-Author: "Private Insurance," Ch. 12, AIDS and the Law, 4th Ed., Aspen Publishers, 2007. Speaker: "LSNY Employee Benefits Training," sponsored by Legal Services of New York, 2004; "LSNY Long Term Disability Benefits Training," sponsored by Legal Services of New York, 2003; "Insurance Issues Forum," sponsored by Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., 1992; "Discrimination and Unfair Practices in Insurance and Employee Benefits," at the Disability Discrimination in the Workplace Conference, co-sponsored by AIDS Network and American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, 1999; "Insurance/Employee Benefits Panel," POZ Life Expo, sponsored by POZ Magazine, 1996. President, Board of Directors, 319 West 18th Street Owners' Corporation. Cooperating Attorney: Lambda Legal Defense Fund; Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc. Member: New York County Lawyers' Association. Reported Cases: Massachusetts Casualty Ins. Co. v. Morgan, 886 F. Supp. 1002 (E.D.N.Y. 1995); Peterson v. Continental Cas Co., 77 F. Supp. 2d 420 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) and 116 F. Supp. 2d 532 (S.D.N.Y. 2000), aff'd in part, rvs'd in part, 282 F.3d 112 (2nd Cir., 2002). Practice Areas: Insurance Law; Employee Benefits; COBRA; Disability Benefits; Employee Benefit Litigation; ERISA Litigation; Health Benefits; Health Care Legislation; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Coverage; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Health Law; Managed Care; Disability Insurance; Insurance Contracts; Insurance Coverage; Life and Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Insurance Litigation.Email: Christopher A. Wieber
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