About
John W. DeHaan has spent the final decade advocating to insure that his customers receive the disability benefits they rightly deserve.
Prior to forming The DeHaan Law corporation, Mr. DeHaan become the Supervising Lawyer for Binder and Binder, P.C.’s long-time period incapacity branch and controlled this country wide litigation branch, triumphing cases in both the federal and country courts from New York to California. He is admitted to exercise law in the courts of the State of New York; the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern, Southern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York; the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Ninth and Eleventh Circuits; and the U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans’ Claims.
During his tenure at Binder and Binder, he gained a multi-million dollar verdict against Guardian Life Insurance Company of America inside the Florida U.S. District Court. As lead counsel on Chapman v. Choice Care Long Island LTD Plan, he effectively argued that the doctrine of equitable tolling of time deadlines for men and women with psychiatric disabilities applies in an ERISA context.
Mr. DeHaan started out his regulation career as a Litigation Associate for Menagh, Trainor, Mundo & Falcone, P.C., advocating on behalf of unions and union workers, drafting wills, dwelling wills and fitness care proxies, and representing adoptive dad and mom during adoption proceedings.
Mr. DeHaan graduated with honors with twin levels in History and Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After prevailing an academic scholarship, he attended New York Law School, where he acquired his Juris Doctor and turned into Notes & Comments Editor for the New York Law School Law Review.
Mr. DeHaan is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the Suffolk County Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council, the Federal Bar Council, and National Organization of Veterans’ Advocates (NOVA).
He additionally became Adjunct Professor of Administrative Law on the State University of NY.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Private/Group Disability Law
- Employer-Provided Disability Law
- FERS Disability Law
