https://www.bkkllp.com/erisa daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://www.bkkllp.com/contactus daily 0.75 2025-11-06 https://www.bkkllp.com/home daily 1.0 2024-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1602708026686-EGBK5130UB5M3S1RC256/d-a-v-i-d-s-o-n-l-u-n-a-kz7rt2kHkmI-unsplash.jpg Home - ERISA Cases Our attorneys specialize in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), a complex federal law that governs the disability, life, health, and retirement benefits of private sector workers. If you have a question about your benefits, give us a call today, and click below to read about our work in complex ERISA matters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1602708428621-Z5K1JCBILH4RMG0V3QKN/partha-narasimhan-Z0x5E6fflQY-unsplash.jpg Home - Disability Benefits If you are suffering from an illness or injury and unable to work, we can help with your disability claim. Whether you are just starting out in the claims process or are in the middle of a dispute with your insurance company, we can help. Click below to read about some of our recent successes winning disability benefit cases. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1602708483793-PDKD2GFCHBSTUMW8LG2W/jd-mason-cKT0oJL9vMI-unsplash.jpg Home - Financial Elder Abuse All too often our elders are taken advantage of financially by unscrupulous insurance companies and brokers. If you or a loved one is concerned about an annuity, life insurance, or other financial matters, contact us for a free evaluation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1602708428621-Z5K1JCBILH4RMG0V3QKN/partha-narasimhan-Z0x5E6fflQY-unsplash.jpg Home - Disability Benefits If you are suffering from an illness or injury and unable to work, we can help with your disability claim. Whether you are just starting out in the claims process or are in the middle of a dispute with your insurance company, we can help. Click below to read about some of our recent successes winning disability benefit cases. https://www.bkkllp.com/ourcases daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611715851725-F7EHCVGSS50J6SZ7GQVC/iStock-1149364911.jpg Our Cases - 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). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611716686298-WE63SLMX9T62KA8VDY17/iStock-1181406745.jpg Our Cases - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611717005993-EWKYTU4EBC9DEXOOBCB5/jesse-collins-ICXMkhRdquA-unsplash.jpg Our Cases - 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. https://www.bkkllp.com/disabilitybenefits daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://www.bkkllp.com/elderabuse daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://www.bkkllp.com/our-team daily 0.75 2021-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611713036843-HOZGIKVG8ZL7T5M3E0RL/Bolt_Keenly_Kim_LLP_2019_104_cropped.jpg Our Team - Emily Bolt Tobias Keene, D.D.S. Hailing from Richmond, Virginia, Dr. Tobias Keene brings a bit of unabashed Southern hospitality to all his patients. He moved to Washington, D.C. over thirty years ago as a freshman at Ivy College. Right after graduation, he attended World University’s School of Dentistry. Before opening Keene Dental in 1994, he worked for free clinics and some of the finest practices in the District. He is part of the 123 Dental Association and stays up-to-date on the latest dental discoveries. When not striving to keep his patients happy and healthy, he’s enjoys hiking with his family in Rock Creek Park. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611714197386-E8OPWDX6Y85H68H66CYW/Bolt_Keenly_Kim_LLP_2019_132_cropped.jpg Our Team - Brian Kim Brian Kim is a founding partner of the firm who specializes in representing the disabled in ERISA and bad-faith insurance cases. He has been lead counsel in numerous prominent cases that you can read about here and helped his clients recover millions of dollars in unpaid benefits for people who are too sick or injured to work. Brian is a graduate of the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and Harvard University. He has devoted his career to representing disabled people against the greed and dirty tricks of insurance companies and has handled matters involving every major carrier. Outside of work, Brian is a devoted husband and the busy father of two children. He is a classically trained pianist who can often be found playing music with his family, staying fit in the gym, or relaxing on the beach. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f875a3b18fdaf16083885dc/1611713492349-7LOXHPZLW14WISS6JQYI/Bolt_Keenly_Kim_LLP_2019_154_cropped.jpg Our Team - Jim Keenley Jim Keenley is a founding partner of the firm and widely recognized expert in ERISA cases and financial elder abuse matters. He has served as lead counsel in numerous successful cases on behalf of disabled persons, retirees, and the elderly, obtaining judgments and settlements worth millions of dollars to his clients. Jim is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, where he served as the Co-Editor in Chief of the Berkeley Journal of International Law. He is the author of How Many Injuries Does it Take: Article III Standing in the Class Action Context, 95 Cal. Law Rev. 849 (2007) which was published in the prestigious California Law Review in 2007 and has since been widely cited by practicing lawyers, legal scholars, and jurists including in Witkin’s Summary of Constitutional Law, The New York University Law Review, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Missouri Court of Appeals, in briefs to the United States Supreme Court, along with many other treatises, academic journals, and trial court decisions. Since law school, Jim has been in private practice focusing exclusively on representing the cause and interests of workers, the disabled, and retirees. He is devoted to providing smart, effective, and vigorous representation to those who need it the most against the biggest insurance companies in the world. Outside of work, Jim spends his time raising his three children, playing softball, and riding his bike. He loves to garden, cook, and lift heavy things. https://www.bkkllp.com/sheetmetalworkerssettlement daily 0.75 2024-11-20 https://www.bkkllp.com/save-mart-retiree-medical-benefits-class-action daily 0.75 2025-06-14