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Melissa Lang

Partner

  • location icon Newark, NJ
    One Riverfront Plaza
    Suite 800
    Newark, NJ 07102

Melissa Lang is a partner in the Newark office of Lewis Brisbois. Melissa's primary focus of her practice is defense of group and individual Life and ERISA claims, interpleader, and coverage analysis for first party and third party commercial and personal lines coverage.

Other practice areas of significant note:

  • Sales Practices Claims for Producers and Insurers
  • Effective Management of Departing Advisors/Producers
  • Defense of complex class actions, large property losses, and catastrophic injury and death claims arising in the construction and transportation industries

Melissa has over 35 years of civil litigation experience and a Martindale-Hubble AV rating.

Notable Reported Decisions

  • McGill v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, 285 Fed. Appx. 765 (1st Cir. 2008) (Sandra Day O'Connor, Associate Justice (Retired) (fraud in the sale of individual disability coverage).
  • Weisblatt v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, 4 F.Supp.2d 371(E.D. Pa. 1998) (widely cited as to the scope of insurance brokers' and agents' duties to obtain coverage consistent with the insureds' needs)
  • Horn v. Minnesota Life Insurance Company, 2019 WL 1791412 (E.D. Pa. April 23, 2019) (cause of action only arises under the UTPCPL through the insurer's pre-contract conduct, and applies to the sale of the policy but not claims handling)
  • Colone v. Securian Life Insurance Company, 2023 Employee Benefits Cas. 52,343, 2023 WL 2063337 D. N.J. February 17, 2023) (lapse for non-payment of premium — dispute as to propriety of Electronic Disclosure of Health and Welfare Plan Information)

Admissions

  • State Bar Admissions
    • New Jersey
    • Pennsylvania
  • United States District Courts
    • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
    • United States District Court for the Western District of New York
    • United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
    • United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
    • United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
  • United States Courts of Appeals
    • United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
    • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • United States Supreme Court

Education

Delaware Law School

Juris Doctor

Virginia Tech

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