Kent Keller Email & Phone Number

Kent Keller is a Litigation and class action defense attorney for the insurance industry. at Barger & Wolen LLP. He possess expertise in arbitration, litigation, insurance, appeals, class actions and 5 more skills.

Listed skills include Arbitration, Litigation, Insurance, Appeals, and 6 others.

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  Partner

  Barger & Wolen Llp

  Apr 1976 - Present - Greater Los Angeles Area

  Kent Keller is a litigation partner in Barger & Wolen’s Los Angeles office. His practice includes both trial and appellate work on behalf of financial institutions, including property & casualty insurers, life and annuity insurers and reinsurers.Examples of Mr. Keller’s vast experience of practice include:- Class action litigation on behalf of property & casualty insurers for claims alleging violations of the California Insurance Code, including California’s rate regulatory laws. The most recent example is MacKay v. Superior Court, 188 Cal. App. 4th 1427 (2010).- Class action litigation on behalf of life and annuity insurers for claims alleging deceptive sales practices involving senior citizens.- Bad faith litigation on behalf of property & casualty insurers, as well as life and annuity insurers.- Appellate representation of property & casualty insurers and life and annuity insurers in Federal Courts of Appeal, the California Court of Appeal and the California Supreme Court in class action cases, insurance coverage cases, unfair business practices cases and insurance regulatory cases, among others. An example of this work is Clark v. Superior Court, 50 Cal. 4th 605 (2010).- Insurance regulatory litigation both before the California Department of Insurance and state and federal courts. An example is Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Gillespie, 50 Cal 3d 82 (1990).- Reinsurance litigation on behalf of both reinsureds and reinsurers. This work has included both representation of insurers or reinsurers in arbitrations and in Federal Courts.Mr. Keller is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.