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Mr. Neft’s primary areas of practice are commercial litigation, health care, and product liability, with experience in antitrust, banking and lender regulatory matters, business torts, competition and trade secrets, consumer protection, contractual disputes, environmental law, ERISA, fair debt collection, false advertising, health care, insurance coverage, medical malpractice, shareholder and corporate control disputes, accountants’ liability, and insurance bad faith and unfair insurance practices.
Education
- University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
- Boston University School of Law, J.D.
Experience
- Representing a large integrated health care system in an antitrust challenge to its merger with a specialty hospital, coordinating all facets of preliminary injunction proceedings, including the coordination of 20 attorneys in extensive document review and production
- Representing health care practice groups in antitrust and contractual disputes brought by former practice physicians
- Representing a health maintenance organization in a contract dispute with more than 80 pharmacies for recovery of overpayments under HMO participating pharmacy agreements
- Representing a small corporation with large real estate holdings with real property concerns including adverse possession and reformation of deeds
- Representing a purchaser of raw materials against a shipper for contaminating a shipment and making it unusable for its intended purpose
- Representing a tax collector in class actions cases alleging improper imposition of fees and costs
- Assisting closed corporations and partnerships in shareholder and business disputes
- Representing a company in a favorable settled trade secret case in which a forensic computer search of a former employee’s hard drive revealed deleted email correspondence of the client’s trade secrets to a new employer
- Representing insureds in disputes with insurance carriers and third-party payers over mismanagement of workers’ compensation programs and for reclamation of collateral
- Assisting a Fortune 100 company in substantial product liability and premises liability litigation in western Pennsylvania and nationwide, including the development of litigation and trial strategies
- Representing a variety of defendants in product liability including airlines, tractor manufacturers, school districts, and small family businesses
- Representing a Fortune 500 manufacturer of wire in product liability litigation, which resulted in the dismissal of all claims against it in Pennsylvania
- Trial preparation and participation in the largest toxic tort mass trial in West Virginia, involving more than 1,800 plaintiffs