Cristin J. Mack

Cristin J. Mack joined the St. Louis office of Ogletree Deakins in 2017 after spending over 15 years litigating ERISA and first party bad faith cases in the Rocky Mountain region. Since joining Ogletree Deakins, Cristin expanded her practice nationwide. She routinely represents employee benefit plans, employers who sponsor employee benefit plans (or their benefits committees), insurers who offer employee benefit policies, and third-party administrators in a wide variety of employee benefits disputes, including life, health, disability, severance, retiree benefits, and pension matters. She also defends non-ERISA breach of contract, bad faith, negligence, and punitive damage and claims. Cristin works closely with her clients to help them respond to single plaintiff and class action employee benefits lawsuits in a strategic, consistent, efficient, and effective manner. With over 20 years of experience, Cristin has litigated hundreds of employee benefit disputes across the United States. She successfully defends ERISA plan fiduciaries against claims for breach of fiduciary duty, equitable relief, and payment of benefits under employer-sponsored plans. Cristin regularly handles cases involving preemption, exhaustion of administrative remedies, the standard and scope of review, violation of claims handling regulations, administrative penalties, church plans, vexatious refusal, rescission, and interpleader. Cristin represents clients in state, federal and appellate courts, obtaining favorable results in every phase of litigation, including at mediation, the pleading stage, by way of motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and appeal.