Financial Services Litigation: Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Overview

We believe financial institutions, whether they be banks, savings and loans, insurance companies, or related entities, need unique and special attention from their trial attorneys. KMK has experience helping many financial institutions grow and prosper. Whether in litigation defending against lender liability lawsuits, bad faith actions, TILA claims, or consumer class actions, we can provide skilled advice, experience, and defense. We have represented many clients in dealing with check fraud, UCC actions, customer defalcations, and related claims which are a significant part of our practice. Our attorneys have worked extensively representing public financial institutions with their securities litigation, including brokerage and FINRA matters. With a stable of experienced ERISA and employee benefits litigators, KMK also provides advanced advice and judgment on ERISA trustee liability cases, and in the areas of defending discrimination claims. Whether it be litigating a loan, mortgage or lease, and/or workouts from reorganizations or bankruptcies, our Financial Services Litigation Team can help you.

Representative Clients

American Financial Group, Inc.

Fifth Third Bank, National Association

Great American Financial Resources, Inc.

Great American Insurance Company

Infinity Property and Casualty Corporation

TIG Insurance

Representative Matters

Defended multiple financial institutions in purported class actions against claims alleging the improper charging of overdraft fees, purported APSN fees, and NSF fees
Defended large financial institution against class action claims related to the CARES Act’s Paycheck Protection Program, resulting in voluntary dismissal of all claims
Represented and counseled financial institutions and customers in connection with fraudulent checks and wire transfers
Defeated lender liability claims against various banks, including a claim in which the jury verdict was in the bank’s favor
Represented public companies and their directors and officers in SEC investigations in federal securities class action cases, and as special counsel
Defeated anti-trust claims against a bank
Successfully defended many ERISA claims, including many breach of fiduciary duty claims, against various bank trustees and fiduciaries
Defense of several financial institutions in nationwide and statewide class actions
Jury verdict in plaintiff’s favor in a UCC Article 3 forged endorsement and conversion case involving a regional bank
Multi-million dollar settlement for a financial institution in a high profile loan default and bank fraud case pending in both state and federal courts in Ohio and Kentucky
Jury award for a plaintiff-financial institution in a state court bank fraud case against multiple defendants
Represented creditors' committees, and secured and unsecured commercial creditors, in insolvency related disputes
Substantive experience representing public companies and their officers and directors in civil litigation and arbitrations under the federal securities laws and FINRA
Representation of a mortgage company in fraud and related foreclosure matters