Christopher D. Edgington

Practice Concentration: Insurance and Consumer Class Action Litigation, Insurance Bad Faith, Personal Injury, Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Member: State Bar of California, Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), American Association for Justice (AAJ) Concentrating in the prosecution of complex litigation, first in environmental cases, and since 2001 with Ernst and Mattison, principally in insurance cases, including against Blue Cross of California, American Investors Life Insurance Company, Metropolitan Life, United Benefit Life, and Tenet Corporation. Active involvement in all of the firm's ongoing insurance and consumer class actions, including against National Western Life, American Equity Investment Insurance, Allianz, ReliaStar, and Union Security Life Insurance. Extensive involvement in the firm's elder and dependent adult abuse files, and consumer class actions benefitting senior citizens and/or disabled adults, including nursing home abuse, annuity and other investment sales fraud, and wrongful denial of disability benefits cases.

• California, 1993

• State Bar of California
• Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC)
• American Association for Justice