Misty A. Murray

Misty Murray is a senior associate in Barger & Wolen’s Los Angeles office, and has been with the firm since 1998. Ms. Murray handles a diverse range of business and insurance litigation issues in the state and federal courts. Ms. Murray has extensive experience counseling and defending insurance companies in the areas of unfair competition, class actions, insurance bad faith, managed care, insurance coverage, ERISA, agent and broker liability, and FINRA (formerly called NASD) disputes. Ms. Murray has also handled numerous appeals at the state and federal level.

During her tenure at Barger & Wolen, Ms. Murray has litigated hundreds of cases and her extensive experience enables her to provide exceptional legal representation and counsel in both pre- and post-litigation matters.

Ms. Murray is admitted to practice before all California state courts as well as the United States District Court for the Central, Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of California and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Ms. Murray’s representative matters include:

• Successfully defending life, health and disability insurers from bad faith allegations and claims for punitive damages.
• Successfully defending insurance companies and welfare benefit plans in claims for ERISA benefits and breach of fiduciary duties under ERISA in individual cases and class actions.
• Defeating class certification on behalf of life, health and disability carriers sued for unfair business practices and other violations of California law.