Resolving Medical Liens and Reimbursement Claims in Personal Injury Cases: Achieving Predictability and Finality

Professor Baron has devoted much of his time and attention to the “underdog,” including victims of overzealous criminal prosecutions, as well as victims of tortfeasors and the insurance industry. He has authored significant law journal articles on the matters of subrogation and ERISA Reimbursement. One of Professor Baron's landmark articles was recently cited and quoted by the Hawaii Supreme Court in its significant decision favoring the victims of the Maui Wildfire tragedy over the interests of insurers seeking subrogation. See Matter of Maui Fire Cases, 55 Haw. 409 at 416; 565 P.3d 754 at 716 (2025). He has been actively involved in ERISA reimbursement litigation, representing clients and lawyers in state and federal courts across the country. Professor Baron has served as lead counsel or co-counsel, admitted pro hac vice, in federal district courts across the country including the Southern District of New York, U.S. District of Connecticut, U.S. District of New Mexico, and the Western District of Arkansas. He has participated in three U.S. Supreme Court proceedings involving ERISA Reimbursement. recently became "of counsel" to The Place Firm. Professor Baron recently became "of counsel" to The Place Firm. This arrangement recognizes and solidifies several years of collaboration between Mr. Dave Place and Professor Roger Baron on subrogation files. 

Mr. Place exclusively assists personal injury victims and plaintiff counsel with complex lien resolution problems using his vast knowledge of the other side’s techniques. He spent fourteen years representing large private group health insurance plans, self-funded ERISA groups, FEHBA plans, Medicare Advantage plans, state Medicaid plans, as well as stop-loss and disability plans in their subrogation/recovery programs. Mr. Place asserted subrogation/reimbursement rights for those groups in all fifty states, personally recovering nearly one hundred million dollars for the insurance industry.