Overview
For more than 16 years, Todd Fuller has represented life insurance and other financial services companies in class actions and other complex federal and state court litigation and regulatory proceedings throughout the United States.
Todd has extensive experience in matters involving the sale of life products, including life insurance, variable annuities and fixed annuities, and their application and use in advanced design concepts such as pension plans, welfare benefit plans, tax shelters, and other wealth accumulation and preservation models. He has defended life insurers in a wide variety of multistate market conduct and sales practices cases, including vanishing premium insurance cases; stranger-originated life insurance cases; revenue sharing/excessive fee litigation associated with 401(k), 403(b), and 457 retirement plans; Section 412(i) and 419 employee benefit plan litigation; cost of insurance litigation; and annuity sales to seniors. These matters typically involve claims for fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duties, violations of RICO, violations of ERISA, deceptive trade practices, and breaches of various state consumer protection laws.
Todd is the co-chair of the firm's Life, Annuity, and Retirement Litigation Practice. He is also the vice chair and editor of the ABA's Health and Disability & Life Insurance Law Committees newsletter. Todd is the co-author of the preemption chapter in the Handbook on ERISA Litigation published by Wolters Kluwer.
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