Virginia N. Roddy is
a founding partner of the firm. Since her admission to the bar in
1979, she has practiced primarily in the areas of life, health and
disability insurance defense litigation. Beginning in the early 1980s,
she developed experience as trial and appellate counsel in handling
cases involving claims for benefits under plans governed by the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act. She is a former President of
the Federal Bar Association in New Orleans and a former member of the
House of Delegates for Orleans Parish to the Louisiana State Bar
Association. She is presently a member of the Board of Administrators
of Tulane University and a former member of the Board of Trustees of
Hampden-Sydney College. She is a member of the International
Association of Defense Counsel, the Association of Life Insurance
Counsel, a master of the Bench of the Tulane Law School American Inns
of Court, and Secretary of the Louisiana Supreme Court Historical
Society. In April of 2001, she was the program co-chair and a speaker
for the Defense Research Institute seminar “Life, Health, Disability
and ERISA Issues for the New Millennium” and in October of 2001, she
spoke on “Avoiding Pitfalls in Litigating Life, Disability and Health
Claims Under ERISA” at the Louisiana State Bar Seminar on “Insurance
Law: Louisiana Law, Legislation & Issues.”
Courts:
U.S. Supreme Court;
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit;
U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of
Louisiana.
Publications and Speeches: Contributor, ERISA Survey of Federal Circuits (Brooks
Magratten ed.,
2005).
Consumer Privacy and Preemption: An Overview of Gramm-Leach-Bliley,
the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Proposed 2003 Legislative
Amendments,
IADC Privacy Project, Phase II (2004);
Developments in Class Action Litigation Against Life Insurance
Companies in Louisiana, Presented at ALI-ABA Conference on Life
Insurance Litigation (1998);
Understanding ERISA, Presented at Louisiana State Bar Association
Summer Conference for Judges (1990).
