Seth R. Klein

Seth R. Klein has been an attorney at Izard Kindall & Raabe LLP for nearly twenty years, focusing on both class action and complex civil litigation in areas including ERISA, consumer protection, securities and antitrust law.

In recent years Mr. Klein’s class action work has resulted in significant class-wide recoveries. For example, in Paetzold v. Metropolitan District Commission (Conn. Super.), his team successfully recovered full damages against a quasi-public agency for wrongful excess billing of water customers. He also worked on the successful recovery of tens of millions of dollars for consumers wrongfully charged excessive electricity rates by several different third-party suppliers in Richards v. Direct Energy Services LLC (D. Conn.); Edwards v. North American Power & Gas LLC (D. Conn); Sanborn v. Viridian Energy, Inc. (D. Conn.); Chandler v. Discount Power (Conn. Super.); Gruber v. Starion Energy, Inc. (Conn. Super.); and Jurich v. Verde Energy USA, Inc. (Conn. Super.).

In addition, Mr. Klein has worked on teams that have successfully represented high net worth individuals on complex civil matters as both plaintiff and defendant, including at trial.

Mr. Klein’s current class cases include litigation against several of the largest United States real estate companies for the alleged charging of anticompetitive commissions (Nosalek v. MLS Property Information Network (D. Mass)) and several class actions against companies alleged to have overcharged patients for medical and prescription drug benefits (Negron v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company (D. Conn.); Neufeld v. Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company (D. Conn.); Bennett v. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana (M.D. La.); Mohr-Lercara v. Oxford Health Ins., Inc. (S.D.N.Y.); and Sohmer v. UnitedHealth Group Inc. (D. Minn.)).

Mr. Klein also continues to represent individual clients in complex civil matters, including representation of an unjustly convicted former inmate to recover damages for the police misconduct that led to his wrongful imprisonment. He also is representing a regulated entity against the Connecticut Department of Banking in a variety of complex administrative and court proceedings.

Prior to joining Izard Kindall and Raabe, Mr. Klein was associated with the reinsurance litigation group at Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in New York, where he focused on complex business disputes routinely involving hundreds of millions of dollars. Before that, Mr. Klein served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Connecticut, where he specialized in consumer protection matters and was a founding member of the office’s electronic commerce unit. Mr. Klein is a 1996 graduate of the University of Michigan law school and clerked for the Hon. David M. Borden of the Connecticut Supreme Court upon graduation.