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DEAN BLAKE, J.D.
Northridge, California
91324
Telephone= (818) 721-3850
E-mail me at: dblake@4insure.com
HIGHLIGHTS
- General Counsel; corporate, litigation - defense & plaintiff, trademark, loans, employment law, real estate acquisition and development, legislative lobbying.
- Experienced advising NYX companies about legal,
corporate and regulatory matters.
- Knowledgable regarding welfare benefit plans and
their governing state and Federal laws and
regulations, i.e. ERISA, COBRA and CalCOBRA, HCFA,
DOC, FMLA, ADA, Labor and Insurance Codes, etc.
- Artfully drafted, negotiated and filed with DOIs
various policy forms and benefit booklets.
- Able to reorganize and respond to meet changing
priorities and deadlines.
- Superior communication skills to advise lay persons
about complex legal concepts.
- Supervised litigation from service of process to
settlement/judgement for NYX insurer.
|
Title |
Employer |
Location |
Dates |
Contract Attorney |
(appearances &
ghost write) |
Los Angeles, Ca. |
1998 |
Regulatory
Compliance Consultant |
American Honda Financial
Corporation |
Torrance, Ca., |
1998 |
Policy/Procedures
Consultant |
Prudential Health Care of
California |
Woodland Hills, Ca. |
1997 |
Compliance
Consultant |
Med One Health Plan (Columbia H.C.A.) |
Las Vegas, Nevada |
1996 |
Manager,
Policy Compliance |
Sierra Health Services, Inc. /
Health Plan of Nevada |
Las Vegas, Nevada |
1995 |
Compliance
Specialist |
Reinsurance Management, Inc. |
Calabasus, Ca. |
1993 - 1995 |
Solo
Law Practitioner |
Attorney-at-Law |
Sherman Oaks, Ca. |
1988 - 1993 |
Corporate
Counsel |
Farmers Group Inc./ Early,
Maslach, et alia |
Los Angeles, Ca. |
1984 - 1988 |
Reinsurance
Treaty Manager |
RFC Intermediaries |
Century City, Ca. |
1983 |
Contract
Manager |
United Insurance Company of
United States |
Northridge, Ca. |
1982 |
Contract
Manager |
CRM Insurance Marketing, Inc. |
Costa Mesa, Ca. |
1979 - 1982 |
Administrative
Assistant |
Claremont
Colleges, McAlister Center |
Claremont,
Ca. |
1979 |
Financial
Underwriter |
Equitable Life Assurance
Society of United States |
New York, N. Y. |
1975-78 |
State Bar
of California A098341, 9th Cir. Federal Bar - Central
Dist. and
National Association of Health Care Lawyers.
Analyze policies, treaties and business
contracts for liability for company's General Counsel and
recommeded course of action.
Evaluated and selected outside defense litigation counsel.
Visited, inspected and audited files and business practices
of subsidiary out-of-state companies for actual/potential
liablity.
Audited legal counsel's billings for consistency and accuracy.
Supervised 240+ lawsuits representing $45 million in
liability.
Reviewed pleadings for quality standards and effectiveness.
Litigated and appeared in Federal, State and Administrative
Courts.
Negotiated provider contracts with financial
service systems.
Formulated the contents of business documents for provider
services, third party administration, managing general
underwriter, reinsurance treaties, and computer services
contracts.
Negotiated final disposition of group health claim litigation.
Supervised eight-person team to review and
correct legacy documents.
Supervised a four-person team to draft and distribute
treaties.
Analyized and flow-charted financial operations and
procedures.
Reorganized the compliance department for
several corporations.
Drafted contract systems for several companies - all forms.
New product development; drafted and filed all business forms.
Codified paperwork and pre-printed forms systems for
corporations.
Computer literate in several word processing,
data base management, spread sheet, statistical, HiWire, HTML
and e-mail programs. Experienced insurance underwriter and
questioned claim examiner. Typing tested at 40 wpm.
College trained in higher order statistical
analysis and interpretation.
Trained to designed evaluation forms, questionaires and tests
and model the results.
Experienced pc statistical program and spreadsheet user.
Trained legal researcher, J.D., both library and computerized
systems.
Experienced rendering insurance coverage opinion.
Experienced identifying and monitoring health law and
regulation changes and interpreting them for management and
staff.
Able to analyize prior group financial and
risk history and adjust for program differences and inflation.
Capable of financial analysis to underwriter groups moving
from fully insured to partial self-funding or fully self-funded
programs.
Knowledgable regarding group Life, W.I., and health risk
analysis and health, life and AD&D underwriting standards.
Med One Health Plan before Nevada Department
of Insurance to lift a Cease and Desist Order for failure to
comply with new statutory requirements to offer small
employer group health plans.
Colorado TPA in L. A. Federal Court - 9th Cir.
Central District against health care claimant.
Defended Los Angeles Physician against
Federal Criminal charges and Grand Jury Investigation
regarding unlawful experimentation upon patients.
Represent Physician in negotitions with
contracting/sponsoring hospital system.
Multiple health care claimants against major
California insurer for their failure to make claim payments.
DEAN M. BLAKE
14319 Dickens Street
Sherman Oaks, California 91423
E-mail me at:
deanmblake@hotmail.com