Christopher A. Wieber
Associate
Email: acwieberesq@verizon.net

Practice Areas: Insurance Law; Employee Benefits; COBRA; Disability Benefits; Employee Benefit Litigation; ERISA Litigation; Health Benefits; Health Care Legislation; Health Care Reform; Health Insurance; Health Insurance Coverage; Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA); Health Law; Managed Care; Disability Insurance; Insurance Contracts; Insurance Coverage; Life and Health Insurance; Life Insurance; Insurance Litigation.

Admitted: 1988, New York and U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Law School: Harvard University, J.D., 1987

College: University of Pennsylvania, B.A., magna cum laude, 1984

Member: New York County Lawyers' Association.

Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Co-Author: "Private Insurance," Ch. 12, AIDS and the Law, 4th Ed., Aspen Publishers, 2007. Speaker: "LSNY Employee Benefits Training," sponsored by Legal Services of New York, 2004; "LSNY Long Term Disability Benefits Training," sponsored by Legal Services of New York, 2003; "Insurance Issues Forum," sponsored by Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc., 1992-; "Discrimination and Unfair Practices in Insurance and Employee Benefits," at the Disability Discrimination in the Workplace Conference, co-sponsored by AIDS Network and American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin, 1999; "Insurance/Employee Benefits Panel," POZ Life Expo, sponsored by POZ Magazine, 1996. President, Board of Directors, 319 West 18th Street Owners' Corporation. Cooperating Attorney: Lambda Legal Defense Fund; Gay Men's Health Crisis, Inc.

Reported Cases: Massachusetts Casualty Ins. Co. v. Morgan, 886 F. Supp. 1002 (E.D.N.Y. 1995); Peterson v. Continental Cas Co., 77 F. Supp. 2d 420 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) and 116 F. Supp. 2d 532 (S.D.N.Y. 2000), aff'd in part, rvs'd in part, 282 F.3d 112 (2nd Cir., 2002).

Born: Norristown, Pennsylvania, August 14, 1962

ISLN: 915938436