Joel R. Hurt

I am a Partner with Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec, LLC of Pittsburgh, PA.  Since graduating law school I have limited my practice almost exclusively to litigating class actions, primarily bringing claims for medical, pension and insurance benefits under ERISA, LMRA and state law.

I am a contributing author to two leading ERISA treatises:  Employee Benefits Law (BNA Books) and ERISA Litigation (Zanglein, Frolik)(BNA Books). Joel’s additional publications include The Constitutional Limitations of Public Employee Pension Legislation, Revisited, The Public Lawyer, Summer 2017 (with William T. Payne, Esq. and Ruairi McDonnell, Esq.); Response to Collectively Bargained Retiree Health and the  Demise of Yard Man – Perspectives from Counsel for Retirees, ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law, Employee Benefits Committee Newsletter, Spring 2015 (with Pamina Ewing, Esq.); CIGNA Corp. v. Amara: Protecting Employees From Disclosure Violations Under ERISA, BNA Pension & Benefits Daily, June 2, 2011 (with Tybe A. Brett, Esq.); Find The Catch In The Contract: “Actual Charges,” published in Trial Magazine, October 2009 (with Ellen M. Doyle, Esq.); and Winning With Grammar, ATLA Insurance Law Section Newsletter, Winter 2006 (addressing use of expert testimony on grammar to demonstrate unreasonableness of insurer’s policy interpretation).

I graduated from Westminster College magna cum laude and am a 2000 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. I am admitted to practice before the courts of Pennsylvania; the United States Supreme Court; the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, Eighth, and Eleventh Circuits; and the United States District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Western District of Tennessee, the Northern District of Illinois, the Eastern District of Michigan, the Eastern District of Wisconsin, and the Northern District of Ohio.