Stephen J. Jorden
Partner

Connecticut

Email: sj@jordenusa.com
Phone: 860.392.5023
Fax: 860.392.5058

Stephen Jorden is a Vice Chair of the Firm's Class Action Practice Team and its Property and Casualty Industry Group. His practice covers a wide range of complex commercial litigation matters involving insurers and other financial institutions.

Mr. Jorden has extensive experience representing insurers and other financial institutions in a variety of complex matters, including major market conduct class actions, commercial contract litigation, and consumer fraud cases. Mr. Jorden also has extensive experience with appellate litigation and matters before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. He frequently represents clients pursuing and defending claims brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Mr. Jorden has substantial experience representing clients in multistate and individual state regulatory investigations and proceedings. He further has represented U.S. and foreign clients in a variety of transnational disputes, and has handled complex document intensive cases involving electronic discovery.

Representative Matters

• Mooney v. Allianz Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., 2010 WL 419962 (D. Minn. 2010) (class action)
• Paul v. AVIVA Life & Annuity Co., No. 3:09-1490, 2009 WL 3815949 (N.D. Tex. Nov. 12, 2009) (putative class action)
• In re Am. Investors Life Ins. Co. Annuity Mktg. & Sales Practices Litig., 2008 WL 2246989 (E.D. Pa. 2008) (putative class action)
• Negrete v. Allianz Life Ins. Co., Case No. CV 05-6838 (C.D. Cal.) (class action)
• Negrete v. Allianz Life Ins. Co., 523 F.3d 1091 (9th Cir. 2008) (appellate)
• Lloyd's v. Siemon-Netto, 457 F.3d 94 (D.C. Cir. 2006) (appellate)
• In re Allianz Life Ins. Co. Deferred Annuity Marketing and Sales Practice Litigation, 517 F. Supp. 1364 (J.P.M.L. Oct. 10, 2007) (opposing consolidation request)
• Lloyd's v. Siemon-Netto, No. 03-1524, 2004 WL 5180447 (D.D.C. 2004) (putative class action)
• In re the Soc'y of Lloyd's Judgment Enforcement Litigation, 321 F. Supp.2d 1381 (J.P.M.L. June 15, 2004) (opposing consolidation request)
• CaremarkPCS v. Great West Life & Annuity Ins. Co., 2:04-cv-02110 (pharmacy benefit contract litigation)

Speeches and Publications

• Speaker, 14th Annual Advanced ALI-ABA Conference on Insurance and Financial Services Litigation, Boston MA (July 2009)
• Author, Annuity Class Action Litigation, ALI-ABA Conference on Insurance Industry and Financial Services Litigation (July 9, 2009)
• Co-Author: "United States," Transnational Litigation, A Practitioner's Guide (Oceana Publications, Inc., Dec. 1997)