We Win Cases
Bolt Keenley Kim LLP has a proven track record of bringing cases to judgment, winning millions of dollars for their clients. Read about some of our notable cases below.
Doe v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, 345 F. Supp. 3d 1172 (C.D. Cal. 2017): The Honorable André Birote of the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted summary judgment to the Plaintiff John Doe in a long-term disability case against Prudential Insurance Company in which Bolt Keenley Kim successfully persuaded the court that Prudential should not be allowed to treat the plaintiff’s HIV and AIDS cognitive decline as a “mental health illness.” The case resulted in the plaintiff recovering over a million dollars in past-due benefits, hundreds of thousands of dollars in interest due on those benefits, and compensation for over $340,000 in attorney’s fees (see Doe v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, 245 F. Supp. 32 1089 (C.D. Cal. 2017).
Dragu v. Motion Picture Industry Health Plan for Active Participants, 144 F. Supp. 3d 1097 (N.D. Cal. 2015): The Honorable Richard Seeborg of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California granted summary judgment to the Plaintiff in a dispute over unpaid, costly, medical bills following a severe injury. Bolt Keenley Kim was successful in obtaining an order from the court requiring the plan to pay the full cost of Plaintiff’s dental implants that were necessary after the Plaintiff suffered a traumatic injury. In subsequently awarding the Defendant to pay over one hundred thousand dollars in attorney’s fee compensation to Plaintiff, the court noted “James Keenley helped his client significantly. He Pressed Dragu’s claims and achieved enviable success.” Dragu v. Motion Picture Industry Health Plan for Active Participants, 159 F. Supp. 3d 1121, 1124 (N.D. Cal. 2016).
Hart v. Unum Life Insurance Company of America, 253 F. Supp. 3d 1053 (N.D. Cal. 2017): The Honorable Thelton Henderson of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California held that our client, a nurse who was disabled by severe degenerative spinal disease, was entitled to a full recovery of long-term disability benefits, with prejudgment interest on those benefits, finding that Unum wrongly terminated her claim. Resulting in the plaintiff recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars in badly needed disability benefits and interest.
Kott v. Agilent Technologies, Inc. Disability Plan, 760 Fed. Appx. 515 (9th Cir. 2019): A three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of our client, overturning the trial court below, and awarding her benefits for a disability caused by severe foot and back pain, resulting in the recovery of hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid disability benefits.
Furey v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, —- F. Supp. 3d. ——, 2020 WL 4584196 (N.D. Cal. 2020): The Honorable Donna M. Ryu of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California issued summary judgment to our client, finding that Metlife’s attempt to apply a two year limitation on “mental health illness” disabilities did not apply to our client’s claim.
White et al. v. Presidential Life Insurance Company et al., Case No. CGC-13-534083 (San Francisco Superior Court, 2016): Successfully defeated the defendants’ attempts to obtain summary judgment in a case in which our client was the sold a completely inappropriate medically underwritten annuity shortly before he died.
Gustafson v. Sequoia Surgical Pavilion LLC, Case No. MSC-15-02339 (Contra Costa County Superior Court): The Honorable Charles S. Treat, Superior Court Judge, denied defendants motion for summary judgment and granted plaintiffs in a dispute over valuable shares of held by plaintiff in an LLC.
Gustafson v. Sequoia Surgical Pavilion LLC, Case No. A153898 (Court of Appeal, First Appellate District): A three judge panel of the California Court of Appeal ruled in favor of our client, overturning the trial court’s decision to throw her claim out of court on statute of limitations grounds. We successfully appealed, convincing the court that our client’s lawsuit was timely, ultimately leading to victory on her breach of contract claims.