Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Cordes has an active class action practice in the area of employee benefits and ERISA. We are well-known throughout the country for bringing a series of ERISA class actions challenging the termination or reduction of retiree health benefits to former union members. These cases have received national press coverage, including stories in the Wall Street Journal and Readers' Digest and an entire episode on the PBS television show, NOW.

Our attorneys have been and continue to be at the forefront of litigation to recover losses to participants in 401(k) plans and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) from imprudent investments in employer stock, years before the Enron and Worldcom scandals brought this problem to national attention. Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Cordes also litigates cases involving health and disability plans, traditional pension plans, cash balance plans and severance plans. Currently, we are involved in suits against Regions, First Horizon National, PFF and Sovereign banks.  These banks have been charged with breaches of their fiduciary duties in failing to properly disclose material information about their exposure to subprime and other high risk investments to employees who were participants in company 401Ks.

We have extensive experience in litigating insurance class actions where insurance benefits have been improperly processed, calculated or denied. We currently represent insureds who have been denied benefits under homeowners policies, health plans and cancer insurance policies. In addition, we represent consumers and borrowers against banks and other financial institutions when they charge excessive fees in violation of state and federal law, or when they simply fail to live up to their contractual obligations.