Maria VanDerLaan

Maria Pepe VanDerLaan is a strategic thinking, high energy attorney recognized for providing successful legal solutions and strategies on complex cases, consistently solidifying lucrative settlements and prevailing in trials. She is held in high regard for flawless organization, hands-on case management, and exceptional vision, business acuity and leadership.

Ms. VanDerLaan has extensive trial experience in state and federal courts. She is well known for her courtroom skills and her ability to engage juries and communicate to them in a clear concise manner, making complex issues simple to understand. She is well known and highly respected by her peers.

Maria brings almost 20 years of legal expertise to the VanDerLaan Law Group, providing sound advice and counsel to a multi industry client base. Her clients include large corporations, hospitals, financial institutions and small and medium sized businesses, as well as physicians, attorneys, police officers and other individuals.

Maria's areas of legal expertise include:

• Litigation and Arbitration
• Managed Care Contracting and Reimbursement
• Employment Law
• Medical Malpractice Defense
• Divorce and Family Law
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Law
• Healthcare Law
• Business Law

Maria continues to demonstrate her executive leadership skills and unique ability to efficiently manage large projects through flawless organization, client relations and issue management & resolution.

In the area of Healthcare, Maria has recovered millions of dollars and favorable contract changes while representing numerous Connecticut hospitals in negotiations pertaining to managed care contract disputes and unfair insurance practices. She has spearheaded the massive project and team, on behalf of medical providers, overseeing ongoing development and navigation of legal strategy to investigate possible breach of contracts and unfair insurance practices related to reimbursement practices by managed care companies.

Maria has spent many years cultivating relationships and building a network within the state, including serving as co-counsel with Attorney General's office, supporting the Department of Insurance, and collaborating with Office of Healthcare Advocates.

Maria believes it is important to represent the interests of those who cannot afford to pay lawyers to stand up for their legal rights. She offers her services, pro bono, to qualified individuals with healthcare coverage concerns and disputes involving insurance companies. She has prevailed in attaining reversal of denials in life-threatening medical-treatment cases for pro-bono clients initially denied insurance coverage.