ELLEN M. DOYLE
edoyle@stemberfeinstein.com

Ellen M. Doyle is a partner in Stember Feinstein Doyle & Payne, LLC.  For twenty-five years she has litigated complex class actions against a broad range of large financial and corporate defendants in federal and state courts.  Ms. Doyle is a 1975 graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, has been a member of the Pennsylvania Bar since 1975, and since 1982 has represented ERISA plan participants, insureds, borrowers, consumers and others adversely affected by corporate abuses and financial overreaching. 

Over the course of her career, Ms. Doyle has recovered more than $100 million in recoveries for pension plans and their participants.  She has been appointed as class counsel to represent numerous classes of ERISA plan participants, in cases challenging, inter alia, the plan’s continued investment in company stock.  See In re CMS Energy ERISA Litig., No. 02-72834 (E.D. Mich.); Sherrill v. Federal Mogul Corp. Retirement Programs Committee, No. 04-72949 (E.D. Mich.); In re Gulf Pension Litigation, No. H-86-4365 (S.D. Tex.);); Presley v. Carter Hawley Hale Profit Sharing Plan, No. C-97-04316 SC (N.D. Cal.);; Koch v. Dwyer, No. 98-Civ.-5519 (S.D.N.Y.); Blyler v. Agee, No. CV97-0332 (D. Idaho);  In re Computer Associates ERISA Litigation, No. CV-02-6281 (S.D.N.Y.); Kling v. Fidelity Management Trust Co., No. 01-11939 (D. Mass.); In re McKesson HBOC, Inc. ERISA Litig., No. C00-20030 (N.D. Cal.); Koch v. Dwyer, No. 98-Civ.-5519 (S.D.N.Y.); Presley v. Carter Hawley Hale Profit Sharing Plan, No. 97-CV-04316 (N.D. Cal.); Blyler v. Agee, No. CV 97-0332 (D. Idaho);and In re Gulf Pension Litig., No. H-86-4365 (S.D. Tex.).

She has also represented plan participants in numerous other cases including plan terminations, Glauberman v. Joy Technologies, Inc., No. 87-2696 (W.D.Pa.); challenges to plan accrual arrangements, Barnes v. Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., No. CA3- 92-CV-0694-D (N.D.Tex.) and DiCioccio v. Duquesne Light Company, No. 93-0442 (W.D.Pa.); and in medical benefits cases challenging the methods by which medical benefits administrators calculate participants’ co-payments.  See In re Blue Cross of Western Pennsylvania Litigation, No. 93-1591 (W.D.Pa.) and Kennedy v. United Healthcare of Ohio, Inc., No. C2-98-128 (S.D.Ohio)

Ms. Doyle’s current representations include representing 401(k) plan participants challenging imprudent investments by their fiduciaries, representing homeowners in Pennsylvania denied replacement cost benefits by a major insurance carrier, and representing auto industry retirees.

 Ms. Doyle was selected for membership in the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and has served on that organization's Board of Directors, has served as Chair of the Insurance Section of the American Trial Lawyers Association, and currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Rules of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. 

Ms. Doyle has authored numerous publications, including:  ERISA Litigation:  The View from the Plaintiff’s Side, Vol. XXII, The Barrister (Autumn, 1991); Fiduciaries Beware:   Communications Between Administrators and Counsel Are Not Privileged, Vol. 6, Benefits Law Journal, No. 2 (Summer 1993); The 80/20 Percent Solution:  Enforcing Medical Coverage Promises, Vol. 32, Trial No. 10 (October 1996) (co-author); Suing Banks and Financial Institutions:  Perspective of Plaintiffs' Counsel, Banking and Financial Services Conference, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (1990);  Non-Party Written Discovery:  Requirements and Techniques, Pennsylvania Bar Institute (1992); Keeping Secrets:  Confidentiality in Medical Benefits Plan Administration and Litigation, Vol. 8, Benefits Law Journal, No. 1 (Spring, 1995); and Taking Legal Action to Protect Policyholders’ Ownership Rights in the Wake of the Continuing Trend Toward Insurance Company Demutualization, ATLA Insurance Law Section Newsletter (Fall, 2000) (co-author).

Ms. Doyle is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, the United States District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Eastern District of Michigan, the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Ninth and Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.  She has been given the highest possible rating (AV) by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.