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Inactive Bar Membership ILLINOIS

Corinne Chandler

Corinne Chandler is a Senior Partner with Kantor & Kantor. She has vast professional experience in the field of disability. She joined Kantor & Kantor LLP when it was started in 2004. Corinne accepts and has represented many clients who have been declined disability, life and long-term care benefits by insurance carriers. She has been practicing in the ERISA disability area since 1995 and enjoys being an advocate for individuals who have been wrongfully denied disability benefits.

Before joining Kantor & Kantor LLP, Corinne was a partner at both Adams, Duque & Hazeltine and Seyfarth, Shaw. While she was employed with those firms, Corinne frequently represented many disability carriers to defend benefit claims. After 18 years of investing her practice of representing carriers, Corinne make the decision to “switch sides” and has now devoted her practice and focus to exclusively to representing individuals in recovering their benefits.

Corinne grew up in Southern California and currently lives in Pasadena with her husband. She and her husband have raised two children together, who also live in Southern California. When she has free time, she is found enjoying time spent with family as well as biking.

PUBLICATIONS

June, 2001, The Advocate, Anatomy of an ERISA case
June, 2013, The Advocate, California’s Ban on Discretionary Clauses in Disability and Life Insurance Case
Contributing Editor, The Rutter Group, California Practice Guide, Insurance Litigation, Ch. 6.

NOTABLE CASES

Gaines v Sargent Fletcher, Inc. Group Life Ins. Plan, 329 F. Supp.2d 1198, 2004 WL 1796743 (C.D. Cal., 2004)
Abdel Malek v Life Ins. Co. of North America, 359 F. Supp.2d 912, 2005 WL 578460 (C.D. Cal., 2005)
Boyd v Aetna Life Ins. Co., 438 F. Supp.2d 1134, 2006 WL 18511475 (C.D. Cal., 2006)
Greenwood v. Hartford Life Ins. Co., 471 F. Supp.2d 1049, 2007 WL 268227 (C.D., Cal., 2007)
Archuleta v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 504 F. Supp.2d 876 (C.D. Cal., 2007)
Mandala v California Law Enforcement Ass’n, 561 F. Supp.2d 1130, 2008 WL 2511793 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Sacks v Standard Ins. Co., 671 F. Supp.2d 1148, 2009 WL 4307558 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Whealen v Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co., 2007 WL 1891175 (C.D. Cal., 2007), aff’d 332 Fed Appx. 443 (9^th Cir., 2009)
Rorabaugh v Continental Case. Co., 2006 WL 4384712 (C.D. Cal., 2006),aff’d, 321 Fed. Appx. 708 (9^th Cir., 2009)
Taylor v SmithKline Beecham Corp., 629 F. Supp.2d 1032 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Letvinuck v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 439 Fed Appx. 585 (2011 WL 2469222) (9^th Cir., 2011)
Kreeger v Life Ins. Co. of North America., 766 F. Supp.2d 991 (C.D. Cal., 2011)
Polnicky v Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, 2014 WL 6680725 (N.D. Cal., 2014)
Hertan v Unum Life Ins. Co., 111 F. Supp.3d 1075, 2015 WL 3632244 (C.D. Cal., 2015)
Yancy v. United of Omaha, 2015 WL 9311729 (C.D., Cal., 2015)
Gottlieb v Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company, 612 Fed. Appx. 468 (9^th Cir., 2015)
Murphy v California Physicians Service, 2017 WL 1330636 (N.D., Cal., 2017)
Rappa v Mutual of Omaha Ins. Co., 2017 WL 3394111 (E.D., Cal., 2017)
Kibel v Aetna Life Ins. Co., –Fed. Appx.—, 2018 WL 832870 (9^th Cir., 2018)

Education

Juris Doctor, De Paul University College of Law, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary’s of Notre Dame, 1977

Admissions

State Bar of Illinois, 1980
State Bar of California, 1983
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Court, Northern District of California
United States District Court, Eastern District of California
United States District Court, Central District of California
United States District Court, Southern District of California

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