Cari M. Schwartz

Cari M. Schwartz is a partner with Kantor & Kantor who joined the firm in 2014. Cari's entire legal career has focused on client advocacy. Before joining Kantor & Kantor, Cari spent over a decade representing disabled individuals before the Social Security Administration and helped thousands of individuals obtain their disability benefits. At Kantor & Kantor, Cari represents individual clients all over the country seeking health benefits pursuant to individual policies and other policies that are exempt from ERISA. In July of 2021, Cari was accepted into the Cancer Legal Resource Center's Professional Panel. The CLRC, a program of the Disability Rights Legal Center, provides confidential and free services nationwide on cancer-related legal issues to anyone affected by cancer. In August of 2021, Cari was invited to join Triage Cancer's Legal Advisory Council. Triage Cancer is a national, nonprofit organization that provides free education on the legal and practical issues affecting people diagnosed with cancer. Cari was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, where she still lives with her husband and son. In her spare time, she can be found watching her son play soccer, basketball and/or baseball or in the gym boxing.

• Partner
• Languages
• Spanish

• Presenter, “Top 10 Ways to Get Health Insurance Claims Paid for People with Cancer.” MCLE presentation in partnership with Cancer Legal Resource Center, March 31, 2022
• Co-presenter: “Navigating Mental Health Insurance with Kantor & Kantor, LLP”. NAMI California Townhall, February 8th, 2022
• Presenter, "Navigating Mental Health Insurance Claims and Appeals During a Pandemic", International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals, March 18, 2021
• Co-presenter: Kantor & Kantor Webinar – “How to Advocate for Insurance Coverage for Eating Disorder Treatment”
• Co-presenter: “Insurance Coverage for Eating Disorder Treatment” The University of Southern California Gold School of Law, February 25, 2020
• Co-presenter: Kantor & Kantor Webinar – “Obtaining Explant Insurance Coverage” (2019)
• Co-presenter: Kantor & Kantor Presentation at IAEDP Annual Conference, “Paying for Eating Disorder Treatment” (2016)
• Co-presenter: Kantor & Kantor Utilization Review Training Session at REDC Annual Conference, “How to Maximize Insurance Payment for Eating Disorder Treatment” (2016)

• California, 2002
• U.S. District Court Central District of California
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California

• California State Bar (Member)
• National Organization of Social Security Claimant's Representatives (Member)