Corinne Chandler

Senior Partner

Corinne Chandler is a Senior Partner with Kantor & Kantor. After substantial experience in the disability field, she joined the Firm at its inception in 2004. Corinne represents clients who have been denied disability, life, and long term care benefits by insurance carriers. She has practiced in the ERISA disability field since 1995 and enjoys advocating for those who have been wrongfully denied benefits.

Prior to her joining the Firm, Corinne was a partner at both Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, and Seyfarth, Shaw. While at those Firms, Corinne often represented disability carriers in the defense of benefit claims. After 18 years of representing carriers, Corinne decided to “switch sides” and now devotes her practice exclusively to representing claimants in the recovery of their benefits.

Corinne was born and raised in Southern California and resides in Pasadena with her husband. Together with her husband, she has raised two children, who also reside in Southern California. She enjoys spending time with her family and biking.

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Education

Juris Doctor, De Paul University College of Law, 1980
Bachelor of Arts, St. Mary's of Notre Dame, 1977

Notable Decisions

Stratton v Life Insurance Company of North America, --F. Supp. 3d --, 2022 WL 712926 (S.D. Cal., 2022).
Groch v Dearborn National, 2020 WL 6374619, –F. Supp. 3d --(C.D., Cal., 2020)
Myers v Aetna Life Ins. Co., 2020 WL 7423109 (C.D. Cal., 2020)
Rawls v Unum, 2019 F. supp.2d 1063 (C.D. Cal., 2002) (Plaintiff could assert ERISA class claims against insurance carrier)
Cochran v Reliance Standard Ins. Co., 2018 WL 1725650 (C.D. Cal., 2018)
Kibel v Aetna Life Ins. Co., --Fed. Appx.—, 2018 WL 832870 (9^th Cir., 2018)??????
Murphy v California Physicians Service, 2017 WL 1330636 (N.D., Cal., 2017)
Rappa v Mutual of Omaha Ins. Co., 2017 WL 3394111 (E.D., Cal., 2017)
Gottlieb v Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company, 612 Fed. Appx. 468 (9^th Cir., 2015)
Yancy v. United of Omaha, 2015 WL 9311729 (C.D., Cal., 2015)
Hertan v Unum Life Ins. Co., 111 F. Supp.3d 1075, 2015 WL 3632244 (C.D. Cal., 2015)
Polnicky v Liberty Life Assurance Company of Boston, 2014 WL 6680725 (N.D. Cal., 2014)
Ramirez v Aetna Life, 2012 WL 5302407 (N.D. Cal., ) (Holding that plan was not ERISA plan, but subject to state law)
Letvinuck v. Aetna Life Ins. Co., 439 Fed Appx. 585 (2011 WL 2469222) (9^th Cir., 2011)
Kreeger v Life Ins. Co. of North America., 766 F. Supp.2d 991 (C.D. Cal., 2011)
Sacks v Standard Ins. Co., 671 F. Supp.2d 1148, 2009 WL 4307558 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Whealen v Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co., 2007 WL 1891175 (C.D. Cal., 2007), aff’d 332 Fed Appx. 443 (9^th Cir., 2009)
Mandala v California Law Enforcement Ass’n, 561 F. Supp.2d 1130, 2008 WL 2511793 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Rorabaugh v Continental Case. Co., 2006 WL 4384712 (C.D. Cal., 2006), aff’d, 321 Fed. Appx. 708 (9^th Cir., 2009)
Taylor v SmithKline Beecham Corp., 629 F. Supp.2d 1032 (C.D., Cal., 2009)
Archuleta v. Reliance Standard Life Ins. Co., 504 F. Supp.2d 876 (C.D. Cal., 2007)
Greenwood v. Hartford Life Ins. Co., 471 F. Supp.2d 1049, 2007 WL 268227 (C.D., Cal., 2007)
Boyd v Aetna Life Ins. Co., 438 F. Supp.2d 1134, 2006 WL 18511475 (C.D. Cal., 2006)
Gaines v Sargent Fletcher, Inc. Group Life Ins. Plan, 329 F. Supp.2d 1198, 2004 WL 1796743 (C.D. Cal., 2004)
Abdel Malek v Life Ins. Co. of North America, 359 F. Supp.2d 912, 2005 WL 578460 (C.D. Cal., 2005)

Admissions

State Bar of Illinois, 1980
State Bar of California, 1983
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California

Publications

June, 2013, The Advocate, California’s Ban on Discretionary Clauses in Disability and Life Insurance Case
June, 2001, The Advocate, Anatomy of an ERISA case
Contributing Editor, The Rutter Group, California Practice Guide, Insurance Litigation, Ch. 6.