Molly M. Dengler

Associate

Detroit + 1.313.230.7909

Molly Dengler focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation and regulatory matters involving health care, public utilities, products liability, civil RICO, and contract disputes. She has significant experience representing hospital systems in payor-provider disputes in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. Her practice spans all stages of litigation and regulatory proceedings from the pleading stage to appeals. She has experience representing clients before state regulators, responding to state and federal regulatory audits and investigations, coordinating and managing large-scale discovery, drafting dispositive motions, preparing for depositions and hearings, and managing arbitration proceedings.

As part of her pro bono practice, Molly assisted in representing a criminal defendant who challenged his conviction on constitutional grounds and whose wrongful conviction and sentence of life without parole were ultimately vacated. Molly previously served as a judicial law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Experiência

  • Google defeats Ohio AG's bid to regulate search as common carrierJones Day's client Google LLC won dismissal and summary judgment in a lawsuit filed by the Ohio Attorney General alleging that Google Search should be classified as a common carrier or public utility—a move that would have subjected Google to onerous Ohio regulation on how to operate its internet search function.
  • Sixth Circuit vacates class certification in securities lawsuit involving officers and directors of large public utility holding companyThe Sixth Circuit vacated class certification in a securities lawsuit in which Jones Day represented a group of current and former officers and directors of FirstEnergy Corp.
  • Hospital pursues litigation to secure reimbursement from commercial insurerJones Day represented a hospital system bringing suit against a large health plan, contending that the hospital had provided services to over 2100 patients who were plan members and the plan had wrongfully failed to pay the contracted rates the parties had agreed upon.
  • Rhode Island hospital successfully resolves claims against commercial insurerJones Day represented a large hospital system's facility in Rhode Island in pursuing a commercial insurer's alleged failure to pay appropriately under the parties' Facility Participation Agreement.
  • FirstEnergy reaches agreement to resolve Department of Justice investigationJones Day represented FirstEnergy Corp., an Akron, Ohio-based public utility holding company, in connection with negotiating a Deferred Prosecution Agreement ("DPA") with the DOJ to resolve the DOJ's investigation into FirstEnergy.