Mr. Neft's primary areas of practice are commercial litigation, health care, and product liability, with experience in antitrust, banking and lender regulatory matters, business torts, competition and trade secrets, consumer protection, contractual disputes, environmental law, ERISA, fair debt collection, false advertising, health care, insurance coverage, medical malpractice, shareholder and corporate control disputes, accountants' liability, and insurance bad faith and unfair insurance practices.

Bar Admissions
Pennsylvania State Bar
West Virginia State Bar
Ohio State Bar
California State Bar
United States Supreme Court
United States Courts of Appeals for the Third and Fourth Circuits
United States District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
United States District Court for the Central and Northern Districts of California

Education

• University of Pennsylvania, B.A.
• Boston University School of Law, J.D.

Significant Accomplishments

Representing a large integrated health care system in an antitrust challenge to its merger with a specialty hospital, coordinating all facets of preliminary injunction proceedings, including the coordination of 20 attorneys in extensive document review and production

Representing health care practice groups in antitrust and contractual disputes brought by former practice physicians

Assisting a Fortune 100 company in substantial toxic tort litigation in western Pennsylvania, including the development of litigation and trial strategies

Representing a variety of defendants in asbestos litigation including airlines, tractor manufacturers, school districts, and small family businesses

Representing a Fortune 500 asbestos-coated wire and cable manufacturer in toxic tort litigation, which resulted in the dismissal of all claims in Pennsylvania brought by more than 200 electricians, and trial preparation and participation in the largest toxic tort mass trial in West Virginia, involving more than 1,800 plaintiffs

Assisting closed corporations and partnerships in shareholder and business disputes

Representing a purchaser of raw materials against a shipper for contaminating a shipment and making it unusable for its intended purpose

Representing a tax collector in class actions cases alleging improper imposition of fees and costs

Representing a company in a favorable settled trade secret case in which a forensic computer search of a former employee’s hard drive revealed deleted email correspondence of the client’s trade secrets to a new employer

Representing a health maintenance organization in a contract dispute with more than 80 pharmacies for recovery of overpayments under HMO participating pharmacy agreements

Representing insureds in disputes with insurance carriers and third-party payers over mismanagement of workers’ compensation programs and for reclamation of collateral

 


Professional Activities and Experience

Distinctions

• AV Preeminent Peer-Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
• Nominated by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation and Litigation-Insurance
• 2003 Pennsylvania Lawyer on the Fast Track

 

• Objections: When to Use Them for the Best Results 2021, Pennsylvania Bar Institute