Jan 07, 2022
Short Term Disability Benefits Creates Enforceable Contract
January 5, 2022. The PA Superior Court issued its ruling that an insurance company’s short term disability benef
Pamina represents ERISA plan participants, retirees, union members, and other groups of individuals who challenge unlawful conduct of corporations and other wrongdoers. She has been instrumental in the Firm’s success in numerous important class actions. Many of these cases challenged cuts in company-provided retiree health care benefits.
After graduating from Carleton College, Pamina received her law degree in 1990 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In law school, she served as an Executive Editor of the Law Review, authored a Law Review article, and received an award for best writing by a Third Year student. After law school, Pamina clerked for two years for the Honorable Gustave Diamond of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Pamina later worked for six years as an attorney at Reed Smith, where she focused on employment law and general litigation.
Pamina has worked on numerous ERISA class actions cases including:
Pamina also co-authored “Union Negotiated Lifetime Retiree Health Benefits: Promise or Illusion,” 9 Marquette Elder’s Advisor 319 (2008) (with William T. Payne).
Pamina is admitted to practice in all state courts in Pennsylvania, and in many federal district courts and federal appellate courts throughout the United States.
January 5, 2022. The PA Superior Court issued its ruling that an insurance company’s short term disability benef
On September 23, 2021, the Honorable William H. Orrick, U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Californ